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Am 08.12.2014 um 17:10 schrieb Bastien Nocera:
> There's a few more items that will be opened I'm afraid. And one of the
> reasons
> why we block root ports is to avoid regressions like rpcbind listening
> by default, which was due to a bug in packaging. So what you call "no
> firewall"
> would actually have prevented the potential security hole
* go and read /etc/services above 1024
* they days that system service listening < 1024 are gone
* you can't guarantee that a similar packaging bug happens
in context of a service assigned by IANA to a high port
There's plenty of pre-existing services under 1024, and there's
more likely to be bugs in those "old" services.