From owner-freebsd-security Wed Jul 25 14:42:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from fep04-svc.swip.net (fep04.swip.net [130.244.199.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BD8C37B401 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 14:42:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tubbs@home.se) Received: from tubbs.home.se ([213.100.32.142]) by fep04-svc.swip.net with ESMTP id <20010725214237.KBCH5761.fep04-svc.swip.net@tubbs.home.se>; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 23:42:37 +0200 Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.2.20010725234729.04b4b160@students.su.se> X-Sender: m74mh81f@students.su.se X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 23:47:52 -0700 To: bob , FreeBSD Security From: Markus =?iso-8859-1?Q?Hallstr=F6m?= Subject: Re: Telnet exploit & 3.4-RELEASE In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 At 14:23 2001-07-25 -0700, bob wrote: >What is the best way for me to secure my 3.4-Release machine from the >recent telnetd exploit? > >I don't have physical acces to the machine (its on the other coast) and I >don't have any of the cvsup packages installed. The packages and ports >seem to be unavailable for this release. I'd like to just upgrade through >source, but i'm not sure how to get the necessary packages. > >--bob > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message Disable telnet in inetd and start using ssh would be a good workaround /TUBBS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message