Issued:
2013-01-07
Updated:
2013-01-07

RHBA-2013:0117 - xinetd bug fix update

Synopsis

xinetd bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated xinetd packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

Xinetd is a secure replacement for inetd, the Internet services daemon. Xinetd provides access control for all services based on the address of the remote host and/or on time of access, and can prevent denial-of-access attacks. Xinetd provides extensive logging, has no limit on the number of server arguments, and allows users to bind specific services to specific IP addresses on a host machine. Each service has its own specific configuration file for xinetd; the files are located in the /etc/xinetd.d directory.

This update fixes the following bug:

  • Previously, when the xinetd daemon connected to the TCPMUX service, the service file descriptors were not closed properly. Consequently, xinetd terminated unexpectedly with a segmentation fault. With this update, the code has been fixed to close the file descriptors, and xinetd no longer crashes when a connection to TCPMUX service is established. (BZ#801507)

All users of xinetd are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian5ppc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems5s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5i386

Updated Packages

  • xinetd-debuginfo-2.3.14-17.el5.i386.rpm
  • xinetd-2.3.14-17.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • xinetd-2.3.14-17.el5.ia64.rpm
  • xinetd-2.3.14-17.el5.src.rpm
  • xinetd-debuginfo-2.3.14-17.el5.ppc.rpm
  • xinetd-debuginfo-2.3.14-17.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • xinetd-debuginfo-2.3.14-17.el5.ia64.rpm
  • xinetd-debuginfo-2.3.14-17.el5.s390x.rpm
  • xinetd-2.3.14-17.el5.i386.rpm
  • xinetd-2.3.14-17.el5.s390x.rpm
  • xinetd-2.3.14-17.el5.ppc.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information