#8 denials of service

[Michel Arboi]

4. If cheops-agent receives a message that is exactly
65356 byte long, it prints an error message and exits.
This is just a DoS, there is no buffer overflow.

5. If you repeatedly open connections, send an invalid
message and close the connection, cheops-agent does not
properly release file descriptors and fails with
"accept failed: Too many open files". It is then
impossible to connect to the agent -- it closes the
connection immediately.
lsof shows kazillons of connections in CLOSE_WAIT state.
This DoS can be reproduced with amapcrap (from the Amap
package, from http://www.thc.org\)
amapcrap 127.0.0.1 2300 # for example

[Michel Arboi]

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Mmmhhh.... Looks fixed in CVS.

[Michel Arboi]

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Oops. Point (4) is fixed, but not point (5). amapcrap still
kills the beast.