PROBLEM: (CLD BCPM21NVM) (Patch ID: OSF440-080) ******** This patch fixes a problem in which a system can hang when inetd tries to start a daemon listed in inetd.conf which is not installed on the system. This can occur when a user attempts to telnet to the port reserved for the nonexistent daemon. PROBLEM: (HPAQ20W0V, HPAQ60T8R, HPAQ80ZJS) (PATCH ID: OSF440-545) ******** This patch corrects a problem with inetd which could result in its termination without notice and without a core file. PROBLEM: (SSRT0795U) (PATCH ID: OSF440-782) ******** A potential security vulnerability has been discovered, where under certain circumstances, system integrity may be compromised. This may be in the form where inetd may block incoming connections when scanned by nmap or other port scanners. Compaq has corrected this potential vulnerability. PROBLEM: (80230) (PATCH ID: OSF440-717) ******** This patch allows the socket listen backlog in inetd(8) to be settable by command line option using the -l switch. inetd [-d] [-l backlog] [-R rate] [configfile] -l backlog Specifies the maximum number of outstanding TCP connection requests that the system will queue for services (socket listen queue limit). The default is the maximum defined by the somaxconn kernel attribute for the socket subsystem. Use the sysconfig -q socket somaxconn command to obtain this value.