Bug 3154

Summary:	insecure default listening
Product:	Sisyphus	Reporter:	Dmitry V. Levin <ldv>
Component:	xinitrc	Assignee:	Anton Farygin <rider>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED	QA Contact:	qa-sisyphus
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	P5	CC:	glebfm, ldv, placeholder
Version:	unstable
Hardware:	all
OS:	Linux
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	3005

Description

Dmitry V. Levin 2003-10-13 17:41:25 MSD

By default, X server listens on all interfaces: 
 
$ netstat -atne |fgrep :6000 
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:6000            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      0          38825 
 
This is insecure. 
127.0.0.1:6000 is enough for most cases.

Comment 1

Dmitry V. Levin 2003-10-14 16:04:14 MSD

Implemented "-nolisten tcp" in xinitrc-2.4.18-alt1

Comment 2

Anton Farygin 2003-10-14 16:08:05 MSD

thnx