[plug] Seg fault with xinetd ?

Ryan ryan at is.as.geeky.as
Tue Mar 16 13:00:28 WST 2004


On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 12:54, Kai Jones wrote:
> I tried to upload some stuff to our website the other day, Dreamweaver 
> sat there looking at me and then crashed, I thought it might've been DW 
> so I opened it up again and it did the same thing.
> 
> webserver's message logs say:
> ftpd[6959]: exiting on signal 11: Segmentation fault
> 
> I've tried service xinetd stop and service xinetd start but that doesn't 
> help.

What version of ftpd?  Some with buffer overflow exploits exhibit this
behaviour when attached.  Upgrade it or install a daemonised version
such as proftpd perhaps?

Ryan




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