I can't help, but have to say that I've never seen a DoS on a mac before. Wow! This is nuts. I guess I'd be off line with my mac for a little while yet...checking for an updated fix. Sorry.
Kris Tilford wrote: > My dual 2.3 GHz G5 w/10.5.6 froze strangely with the cursor & mouse > still moving with the spinning beachball icon, and no other > functionality. The clock was frozen also. I waited 5 minutes and > nothing changed. No commands for "Force Quit" worked, so I rebooted by > holding the power button on the case. > > Upon reboot something different happened. I have Little Snitch > installed. A process called "natd" wanted to connect to "local.host" > via many UDP ports (about 20 total) in the series between 49159 and > 49195. > > A Google search of "natd" and "OS X" seems to indicate there may be > some security issue, however this report says that ALL versions of OS > X are vulnerable EXCEPT version 10.5.6 that I'm using?: > > <http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32874> > > I "allowed" these connections in Little Snitch, thinking they were > normal OS X things, but now I'm not sure? This was on initial boot, no > applications were running other than the login items. Here's the login > items list: > iTunesHelper, ATI Monitor, Airport Base Station Agent, > FontExplorerXAutoload, SMARTReporter, gtslauncherdaemon, EyeTV Helper. > > I've rebooted several times, and each time this entire string of natd > connections wants to connect. This is very different behavior than > before. The strange freeze with the mouse working but everything else > frozen seems to me that it might be a "buffer overflow" as minimally > described in the recent security bulletin above? > > Any ideas? > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
