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Date:      Thu, 26 Jul 2001 04:01:15 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Shawn Ramsey <shawn@megadeth.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: telnetd problem?
Message-ID:  <20010726040113.A41239@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <00b401c115b4$b78dbaa0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>; from tedm@toybox.placo.com on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 02:24:06AM -0700
References:  <20010726004017.A42068@xor.obsecurity.org> <00b401c115b4$b78dbaa0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>

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On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 02:24:06AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> That's a bandaid.  He stated that the problem wasn't happening until
> he updated to the new code, so obviously a patch they put into the
> telnetd broke something.

No, Ted, that's not obvious.  Exploitation of this problem has become
much more widespread since the public distribution of the exploit code
yesterday.  The poster hasn't shown that there's a problem
inconsistent with lots of people throwing data at his telnetd trying
to exploit it.

Kris

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