Bug 1213295 (CVE-1999-0636) - VUL-0: CVE-1999-0636: xinetd: The discard service is running.
Summary: VUL-0: CVE-1999-0636: xinetd: The discard service is running.
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-1999-0636
Product: SUSE Security Incidents
Classification: Novell Products
Component: Incidents (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other Other
: P3 - Medium : Critical
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Assignee: package coldpool
QA Contact: Security Team bot
URL: https://smash.suse.de/issue/6678/
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Reported: 2023-07-13 15:03 UTC by Marcus Meissner
Modified: 2023-07-13 15:52 UTC (History)
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Description Marcus Meissner 2023-07-13 15:03:36 UTC 
CVE-1999-0636

The discard service is running.

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-1999-0636
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-1999-0636
Comment 1 Marcus Meissner 2023-07-13 15:05:27 UTC 
Note that discard is a service which would be served by either inetd or xinetd.

In our xinetd configurations the service is default disabled.


There is not much more information about this CVE, and how it would be exploitable.

The only current way I see is that it can be used to check for system presence,  but this would usually also be possible via SYN scans, ICMP pings or similar methods.
Comment 2 Marcus Meissner 2023-07-13 15:33:02 UTC 
close to the original location here the CVE discussion:


https://cve.mitre.org/data/board/archives/1999-08/msg00007.html
Comment 3 Marcus Meissner 2023-07-13 15:34:34 UTC 
discussion on whether to assign CVEs:

https://cve.mitre.org/data/board/archives/1999-08/msg00004.html
Comment 4 Marcus Meissner 2023-07-13 15:52:30 UTC 
closing this CVE archeology topic.