Re: New DoS via SAK?

Matthias Welwarsky (matze@stud.fbi.fh-darmstadt.de)
Thu, 05 Nov 1998 12:17:59 +0100

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Alex Buell wrote:
>
> On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Kurt Garloff wrote:
>
> > You don't have xhost+ somewhere in your X setup, do you?
>
> Jesus! Thanks for the tip. I just had a look. Found a mysterious IP in it,
> deleted it. Only IPs in there should localhost and my machine hostname.
> I've renamed xhost to a different name to foil further attempts.
>
> Cheers,
> Alex

Maybe you should have a closer look at your system then. maybe you got
hacked and didn't notice it till now ;-) You shouldn't use xhost,
anyway.

Gruss,
Matthias

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