Package: ax25-node Version: (all) Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
The SIGQUIT routine fails to close the app leaving the IP sockets open and in some cases DDOS the remote site if a user "ctrl-]+q" out of a telnet session. Also the app fails to close and more can be spawned by a crafty malicious user thus bringing the system to a point of no memory available. I found this in 2005 with Barry K2MF and we incorporated a patch for MFNOS to prevent this from attacking MFNOS. Found this was the situation in ALL linux-based ax25 node packages. Patched this in URONode and informed ax25-node upstream in 2007. No acknowledgement of my email received to date. Suggest replacing ax25-node with URONode for security reasons as other distros have done. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.8 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
