Re: serious telnet bug; is it just me? (fwd)

Brian 'MegaZone' Bikowicz ((no email))
Fri, 8 Sep 1995 14:55:56 -0700 (PDT)

Once upon a time Chris B. Wilson, VectorNet shaped the electrons to say...
>So livingston's technical support department is telling us "not to worry
>about it"?.. What if this gets farther than this list, and I have the
>tight competiton in town rebooting my terminal server.. don't worry about

No, that is not what I said. I said I wouldn't/don't personally think of
it as a bug, it is a console feature. But I also understand the worry, and
I've already (as in the moment I reporodced it) sent the info up the tree to
be worked on.

1. There is a workaround (which I would think anyone worried about security
would have done already) - packet filtering.
2. In *very* brief testing it didn't reboot a unit running a new beta.
3. This 'bug' has been around nigh unto forever - how many reports have there
been of PMs being reset willy-nilly with it?

I'm a bit amused by the mad panic, like it needs to be fixed yesterday or
the world will end. Calm down, breathe deep, relax - the odds are extremely
low that someone will decide to exploit this out of the blue. We know about
it, and it will be addressed.

Life is to short to get too worried about something like this. It can be
prevented already.

-MZ

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