#3154 – insecure default listening

Bug 3154 - insecure default listening

Summary: insecure default listening

Status:	CLOSED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Sisyphus
Classification:	Development
Component:	xinitrc (show other bugs)
Version:	unstable
Hardware:	all Linux

Importance:	P5 blocker
Assignee:	Anton Farygin
QA Contact:	qa-sisyphus

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Blocks:	3005
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Reported:	2003-10-13 17:41 MSD by Dmitry V. Levin
Modified:	2005-07-13 15:45 MSD (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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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