>
> There's an absurdly simple DoS attack against remotely-logging syslog.
>
> You just log like crazy.
>
> Fill up the attackee's disks.
>
> Somebody else mentioned another perl program that looked like it was
> perhaps using the /dev/log syslog interface - you might investigate that.
> If you don't need remote logging enabled, it's best to disable it.
>
> --
> Charlie Watts


There is a Unix::Syslog module that supposedly is more secure according to
the docs.  But I don't have a clue as to how to use it instead of
Sys::Syslog.  Any suggestions?

Ed.


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