Re: serious telnet bug; is it just me?

root (root@jeffnet.org)
Fri, 8 Sep 1995 11:20:35 -0700

On Fri, 8 Sep 1995, Robert Sanders wrote:


> But you don't need the password to bring a PM to its knees. If you
> can get a login: prompt over telnet, you can crash the system. I
> wouldn't mind so much if you actually had to be logged in as the
> Mysterious Knotroot. Or logged in at all.
>
This is not good, now all we need to make our days is for some 13 yr old
hacker wanna be to write a script to try this on every address
combination, bringing a whole lotta systems to thier knees. BTW, has
anybody tried this on AOL or Compuserve yet <BEG>

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