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Check for Quote of the day Service (UDP)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Useless services

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

5.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Mitigation

Created

Created

18 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

Summary

The quote service (qotd) is running on this host. Description : A server listens for UDP datagrams on UDP port 17. When a datagram is received, an answering datagram is sent containing a quote (the data in the received datagram is ignored).

Solution

Solution

- Under Unix systems, comment out the 'qotd' line in /etc/inetd.conf and restart the inetd process - Under Windows systems, set the following registry keys to 0 : HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\SimpTCP\Parameters\EnableTcpQotd HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\SimpTCP\Parameters\EnableUdpQotd Then launch cmd.exe and type : net stop simptcp net start simptcp To restart the service.