Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 01:09:35 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD remote root exploit ? Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20010719010646.03e25eb8@192.168.0.12> In-Reply-To: <20010718213926.A19395@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20010719001357.03e22638@192.168.0.12> <5.1.0.14.0.20010719001357.03e22638@192.168.0.12>
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Major drag. Sadly, one of my customers needs telnetd running. Are there
any alternative daemons that can be used as a temp measure that are not
derived from the BSD tree ?
---Mike
At 09:39 PM 7/18/2001 -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>I haven't been able to verify it yet; they didn't bother to give us
>any advance notice before releasing to bugtraq, nor did they give us
>any additional details.
>
>Kris
>
>On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 12:19:09AM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> >
> > Posted to bugtraq is a notice about telnetd being remotely root
> > exploitable. Does anyone know if it is true ?
> >
> > ---Mike
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