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Re: [cobalt-users] telnet security hole
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] telnet security hole
- From: "Kevin D" <kdlists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon Sep 10 23:04:32 2001
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
From: <flash22@xxxxxxx>
> On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Jon Rosenberg wrote:
>
> > http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2811517,00.html
> >
> > Is this what the most recent telnet update patched?
>
> Good question since RH 7.1 turned out to be vulnerable in spite of
> everyont previously thinking only bad derives machines were susceptable
Actually, I thought the initial bug report stated that all versions of
telnetd based on the original berkly version were vulnerable. Some OS's had
exploits written for them already, while others, like RH, didn't have them
(yet).
Kevin