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Re: telnetd vulnerability from BUGTRAQ



On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 11:24:54PM +0100, Dale Amon wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 04:15:09PM -0600, s. keeling wrote:
> > Is anyone still using telnet when there's ssh?  Why?  I wouldn't even
> > use it inside my own firewalled LAN.  ssh is just better.
> 
> Unfortuneately if you use Cisco gear you are pretty
> much stuck. Some of the older stuff just doesn't
> have the mips to deal with it even if installed and
> I believe Cisco charges an arm and a leg for the
> upgrade. I've never had a Cisco with it installed.

Cisco gear contains the Debian telnetd?  And if that's true, how would us
releasing a DSA for it necessarily help all the Cisco routers out there.

We're not talking about the general intelligence of using telnet (or, at
least, that wasn't the initial topic of discussion), but rather the
possibility of fixing security problems in the stock telnetd in Debian.

- Matt

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