inetd security issues

[egor duda]

Hi!

Tuesday, 10 July, 2001 Corinna Vinschen cygwin@cygwin.com wrote:

CV> Using Cygwin is not secure at all. If you or your admin has
CV> honest security concerns don't open up the system by providing
CV> services via inetd

actually, i'm not aware of any _remotely_ exploitable holes in cygwin
inetutils. do anybody?

yes, cygwin process can be easily exploited locally, it's a known
problem (or, rather a bunch of problems). But if someone finds a
remotely exploitable hole in, say, ftpd, of sshd, it's equally drastic
for cygwin and for any unix -- both on cygwin and unices those daemons
usually run as root.

Egor.            mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19


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