[sleuthkit-users] autopsy opens socket with INADDR_ANY

[Dr. M. W. <wa...@gm...>]

Hi,

due to the missing SSL support I use autopsy only on the localhost.

I notived that even in this case port 9999 is opened on every interface.

I wrote a small patch for autopsy 2.08 to fix this behavior if no remote address is specified.

--- autopsy     2007-01-23 16:07:09.000000000 +0100
+++ autopsy_patched     2007-01-23 16:06:21.000000000 +0100
@@ -334,8 +334,15 @@
 setsockopt(Server, SOL_SOCKET, SO_KEEPALIVE, 1)
   or die "Error setting network socket options (keep alive): $!";
 
-bind(Server, sockaddr_in($port, INADDR_ANY))
-  or die "Error binding to port $port (is Autopsy already running?): $!";
+if ($rema eq "localhost") {
+  my $ip = '127.0.0.1';
+  my $binary = inet_aton($ip);
+  bind(Server, sockaddr_in($port, $binary))
+}
+else {
+  bind(Server, sockaddr_in($port, INADDR_ANY))
+    or die "Error binding to port $port (is Autopsy already running?): $!";
+}
 
 listen(Server, SOMAXCONN)
   or die "Error listening to socket for connections: $!";

Thanks!

Dr. Markus Waldeck

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