On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 6:52 PM, Troy Engel <troyengel+a...@gmail.com> wrote: > Doing a little hardening, I notice on my workstations that > 'mate-session' activates a user-level listening socket on 0.0.0.0 that > you can telnet into and slam with gibberish (and it doesn't exit) -- > does anyone know how to set up a config to lock that to 127.0.0.1 and > ::1? > > $ netstat -lntp | grep mate-session > tcp 1 0 0.0.0.0:60715 0.0.0.0:* > LISTEN 24246/mate-session > tcp6 0 0 :::50621 :::* > LISTEN 24246/mate-session > > $ telnet localhost 60715 > Trying 127.0.0.1... > Connected to localhost. > Escape character is '^]'. > HELP > asdas > asd > a > asd > a > ^] > telnet> close > Connection closed. > > I've had a perusal of the source[1] and see that it's some sort of > "xmp" thing, but I freely admit I don't do a lot of debugging in this > area of the X world (I'm a server guy). Any pointers what this is for > and how I can get it locked down? The gconf schema file doesn't have a > setting, perhaps it's configured somewhere else? > > The Googletubes are failing me, or maybe I just don't understand what > I should be googling for to get the right hits... > > thx! > -te > > [1] https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-session-manager/tree/1.8/mate-session
Why not just drop external connecitons using a firewall [0] rule? [0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Iptables
