At 05:00 PM 12/30/2002 -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>In message <5.2.0.9.2.20021230133720.00aa87c8@192.168.33.5>, Bruno Saverio 
>Delb
>ono writes:
>
> >
> >You're fine.
>
>
>He's not fine -- a daemon is dumping core.  That shouldn't happen --
>ever.  Sure, maybe it's bad RAM, as someone suggested.  Alternatively,
>there's another bug -- and possibly a security bug -- lurking in
>telnetd.  Frankly, that strikes me as more likely.

Hmm...I agree. There very well can be another problem.

>Yes, he's got the latest fixes in.  But that doesn't mean that no more
>fixes are needed.

What I really, honestly, swear-to-god and 
may-electricity-strike-me-if-I-lie, meant to say that the version of 
telnetd he's running is patched for the telnetd(8) options overflow advisory.

(*gasp*) Thunderstorms!!
.... .... ....
<zap>

-Bruno


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