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Caldera Advisory - On Linux, most services do not log informational or error messages to their own files, but use the system log daemon, syslogd, for this. Unfortunately, the current syslogd has a problem by which any user on the local host can mount a denial of service attack that effectively stops all logging. Since all programs that want to send logging information to syslogd block until they're able to establish a connection to syslogd, this will make programs such as login, su, sendmail, telnetd, etc hang indefinitely.

Caldera Advisory - On Linux, most services do not log informational or error messages to their own files, but use the system log daemon, syslogd, for this. Unfortunately, the current syslogd has a problem by which any user on the local host can mount a denial of service attack that effectively stops all logging. Since all programs that want to send logging information to syslogd block until they're able to establish a connection to syslogd, this will make programs such as login, su, sendmail, telnetd, etc hang indefinitely.