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As part of the default installation, a server for the IDENT protocol is installed. This service is used e.g. by several FTP and mail servers to find out the name of the user establishing a connection. The ident daemon will erroneously create several new threads for every incoming request. This can be abused to mount a denial of service attack on the target host.

As part of the default installation, a server for the IDENT protocol is installed. This service is used e.g. by several FTP and mail servers to find out the name of the user establishing a connection. The ident daemon will erroneously create several new threads for every incoming request. This can be abused to mount a denial of service attack on the target host.