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Date:      Wed, 25 Jul 2001 23:47:52 -0700
From:      Markus =?iso-8859-1?Q?Hallstr=F6m?= <tubbs@home.se>
To:        bob <bob@antepenultimate.org>, FreeBSD Security <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Telnet exploit & 3.4-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <5.0.2.1.2.20010725234729.04b4b160@students.su.se>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0107251420100.5000-100000@wasabi.sushigoth.c om>

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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
>
>
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Disable telnet in inetd and start using ssh would be a good workaround

/TUBBS





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