On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 01:34:01AM -0700, Jacob Meuser wrote:
> On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 01:24:50AM -0400, Ed Street wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Well first off WHY are you running the rpc stuff? (i.e. I can root a redhat
> > 6.x box in under 30 seconds with a rpc exploit from a clean install) Turn
> > that stuff OFF.
> >
> Not to start a thread discussing OSes, but ...
>
> OpenBSD ships with rstatd and ruserd enabled by default and according to
> http://www.openbsd.org/
>
> "Four years without a remote hole in the default install!"
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Which begs the question, especially since the *BSD's release their
> sources under BSD style liscenses, why does rpc remain a security problem
> in Linux? Is it the kernel? Is it the rpc code?
because that underlined portion is the key here, OpenBSD keeps the rpc
stuff turned off by default, thus even if a root hole is found in a
rpc service (other then portmap) openbsd does not consider that a
`remote hole in the *default install*' they are quick to mention this
every time a hole is found in any daemon OpenBSD ships with but leaves
off by default.
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Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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