safety of netkit-telnet-0.17

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, M.W. Chang wrote:
>
> does it have known security problem? Will it be easy for someone to gain
> root access from the login prompts alone, I meant those buffer
> overflow/underflow kind of hacks?

Its plaintext, its bad.  You don't need any buffer exploits to exploit
telnet.  Its a huge security hole all on its own.


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