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vendor:
Xinetd
by:
SecurityFocus
7.5
CVSS
HIGH
Denial of Service
400
CWE
Product Name: Xinetd
Affected Version From: N/A
Affected Version To: N/A
Patch Exists: YES
Related CWE: N/A
CPE: N/A
Metasploit: N/A
Other Scripts: N/A
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2002

A denial of service vulnerability has been reported for Xinetd

A denial of service vulnerability has been reported for Xinetd. The vulnerability exists due to memory leaks occuring when connections are rejected. Numerous, repeated connections to a vulnerable Xinetd server will result in the consumption of all available memory resources thereby causing a denial of service condition.

Mitigation:

Upgrade to the latest version of Xinetd
Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7382/info

A denial of service vulnerability has been reported for Xinetd. The vulnerability exists due to memory leaks occuring when connections are rejected.

Numerous, repeated connections to a vulnerable Xinetd server will result in the consumption of all available memory resources thereby causing a denial of service condition. 

while true; do telnet localhost chargen < /dev/null; done;