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Re: multiple vendor telnet daemon vulnerability

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chad Loder)
Wed Jul 25 15:46:22 2001

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Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:55:44 -0700
To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
From: Chad Loder <cloder@acm.org>
Cc: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
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AFAIK, telnet is a symmetric protocol, i.e. there
is no real difference between servers and clients
from telnet's point of view.

I wonder if telnet clients are vulnerable to this
or similar option-negotiation buffer overflows.

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Chad Loder
Principal Engineer
Rapid 7, Inc.
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