tftpd starts randomly
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A few days ago my Little Snitch filter starts popping up tftpd. I'd never seen this before, so I immediately start freaking out thinking my Mac has been compromised. I can't find anything unusual on the system.
The process usually dies before I can trace it (little snitch never allowed the connection just left the popup up). I finally caught it once, and found this:
[10:32]: sudo lsof -nlP | fgrep tftp
Password:
tftpd 1924 18446744 cwd DIR 1,3 1326 2 /
tftpd 1924 18446744 txt REG 1,3 29856 163979456 /usr/libexec/tftpd
tftpd 1924 18446744 txt REG 1,3 600576 163686622 /usr/lib/dyld
tftpd 1924 18446744 txt REG 1,3 303300608 189014898 /private/var/db/dyld/dyld_shared_cache_x86_64
tftpd 1924 18446744 0u IPv4 0x34a76100fcbb06e3 0t0 UDP *:55818
tftpd 1924 18446744 2u IPv4 0x34a76100f1113c53 0t0 UDP *:69
[10:32]: ps ax | fgrep 1924
1924 ?? S 0:00.00 /usr/libexec/tftpd -i /private/tftpboot
1949 s000 S+ 0:00.00 fgrep 1924
For the life of me I can't figure out what is starting this. Nothing in cron, launchdaemons, etc. Google searches haven't yielded much either. The connection IP is different each time.
So my question is: Has anyone seen anything like this before?