(Fwd) Denial of Service Vulnerability in Nagios

[Jasmine]

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> On Tuesday 22 July 2003 08:06, Karl DeBisschop wrote:
> kernel switch or router protects against SYN flood - exhaustion of
> resource after 20 or so connections. Where this is says it can be
> created by only 2, I think the problem is likely in NRPE :(
>
> I can't claim to be the worlds greatest expert, but I'll check out the
> source tonight and see if I can help find anything. (Sounds like GDB
> could help find where for people who are setting doen to experiment from
> the implementation side, rather than from a code review.
>
> --
> Karl
>
>
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Hi 

I have been following this topic and actually tested out on a x86 platform. 
Tried sending a few SYN packets to the NRPE daemon, but I did not manage to 
see it crash. Have anyone tested it yet?

Thanks and Best Regards,
Jasmine
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