Re:Serious localhost vulnerability found in FreeBSD
by bumblebird on Tuesday December 01, 2009 @01:58PM
(#970380)
Um chill out.
It could have been some weird IP spoofing attack where the host gets confused and thinks a remote connection is actually localhost and grants it some privilege or other.
For example maybe you have a ton of services setup to only listen on localhost:port. Maybe there's some exploit that allows connections from outside.
That's what the title sounds like to me, which is quite different.
It could have been some weird IP spoofing attack where the host gets confused and thinks a remote connection is actually localhost and grants it some privilege or other.
For example maybe you have a ton of services setup to only listen on localhost:port. Maybe there's some exploit that allows connections from outside.
That's what the title sounds like to me, which is quite different.
anyway.