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From: Peter Hawkins <thepish@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Synopsis: Security problem with DNS resolution

State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
State-Changed-By: thepish
State-Changed-When: Wed Jul 29 06:42:38 PDT 1998
State-Changed-Why: 
Neither telnetd or rlogind produce the reported fault in 2.2.7.
Examining their source, both do precisely what submitter suggests
ie if gethostbyaddr returns a NULL, the IP address is strncpy-ed into the
ut_host field (consistent with the behaviour I see when I try it). Examination
of the cvs log (and brief examination of committed versions) around the
time of the report did not reveal exactly where the bug was active. I think
the window must have been brief.

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