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S.u.S.E. in.identd Denial of Service Vulnerability

Solution:
Until a fix is released, Roman Drahtmueller <draht@suse.de> suggests (a patch is forthecoming):

In the meanwhile, you may want to disable the service by changing
START_IDENTD="yes" # default
to
START_IDENTD="no"
in /etc/rc.config and by killing the daemon: `killall in.identd´. Thanks to Niels for pointing this out, too.

Currently the SecurityFocus staff are not ware of any vendor supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: vuldb@securityfocus.com.