X Server / X11 port 6000 vulnerabilities

miunk · Apprentice Joined: 24 Sep 2002 Posts: 199

What exactly is the danger in having port 6000 (or whichever port your X server is listening on) open to the world (including the german t-dialin's)?

Can it be used to get root access to my machine? Any filesystem access?

humpback · Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2003 7:54 pm Post subject:

It is never good to have processes that are running has root listening to the outside world.
Either configure iptables or deactivate the listening.
_________________
Gustavo Felisberto
Humpback @ #gentoo-pt
------------
It's most certainly GNU/Linux, not Linux. Read more at
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html .
-------------