On Jan 30, 2006, at 2:51 PM, framirez (at) akori (dot) fr [email concealed] wrote:
> If you flood the telnet configuration a couple dozen times with
> long
> strings, eventually the telnetd service flat out dies. Routing
> functions
> of the NetDSL continue to work fine as before. It is unknown
> whether only
> the telnetd service is affected, other means of remote
> configuration may
> have become unavailable as well.
I reported this vulnerability to bugtraq on 2002-02-09. Nice to see
that now, four years later, the vulnerability still exists.
> If you flood the telnet configuration a couple dozen times with
> long
> strings, eventually the telnetd service flat out dies. Routing
> functions
> of the NetDSL continue to work fine as before. It is unknown
> whether only
> the telnetd service is affected, other means of remote
> configuration may
> have become unavailable as well.
I reported this vulnerability to bugtraq on 2002-02-09. Nice to see
that now, four years later, the vulnerability still exists.
Cheers,
Pi
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