From owner-freebsd-security Wed Jul 25 11: 6:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from pogo.caustic.org (pogo.caustic.org [208.44.193.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E3F637B403 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 11:06:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jan@caustic.org) Received: from localhost (jan@localhost) by pogo.caustic.org (8.11.0/ignatz) with ESMTP id f6PI5vp65855; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 11:05:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 11:05:57 -0700 (PDT) From: "f.johan.beisser" To: Robert Herrold Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: telnet Exploit In-Reply-To: <033901c113aa$c65aebe0$6c01a8c0@mpcsecurity.com> Message-ID: X-Ignore: This statement isn't supposed to be read by you MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Robert Herrold wrote: > I have never used cvsup before, and I'm a little confused about the > current possible patch/fix. > > First off, is there a 'patch/fix/replacement for telnetd' > (/usr/libexec/telnetd). If so, would that be included in the cvsup? yes. > Secondly, I've read through the cvsup documentation, and I'm a little > unclear on whether it is basically just downloading source, or is it > adding the packages. (do I need to recompile?) it's downloading source. lots of it. this can take a while. yes, you'll have to recompile. > Any help would be greatly appreciated. hope this helps some. -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+ http://caustic.org/~jan jan@caustic.org "if my thought-dreams could be seen.. "they'd probably put my head in a gillotine" -- Bob Dylan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message