CVE-2001-0309: Red Hat Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

inetd in Red Hat 6.2 does not properly close sockets for internal services such as chargen, daytime, echo, etc., which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a series of connections to the internal services.

Affected products

• Red Hat Linux: version 6.2 only

Published 2001-06-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.