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Date:      05 Nov 1999 02:56:41 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: nmap portscan hangs X server?
Message-ID:  <86eme569iu.fsf@localhost.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: Juergen Lock's message of "Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:24:44 %2B0100"
References:  <19991104232444.A590@saturn.kn-bremen.de>

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Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> writes:

> I just installed nmap from ports and found out when i simply do a
> 
> 	nmap 127.0.0.1
> 
>  it'll hang the X server. (XFree86, not the latest version, mind you)
> Can anyone reproduce this?  Be sure you can login over the net (or a

Yep, it did creahs my box too.  Pity I can't use a network connection to 
kill the offending X server.  Can't find anything in the logs that says
how this happen though.  Probably because I had to hit the big red
button to recover my console, after the necessary reboot + fsck.

-- 
Giorgos Keramidas, <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
"What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle]


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