Although I just use telnet for basic Web server troubleshooting, telnet ends up being my preferred tool for e-mail troubleshooting, mostly because it's so simple to send a complete e-mail with only a ...

Thus if you cannot switch off telnet and wait until a new telnet package is released for your distribution, you could patch the telnetd source code using the appended patch and recompile telnetd.

On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 12:21:33PM -0700, Martin Siegert wrote: > Topic > ===== > remote root exploit in in.telnetd RedHat and Caldera have issued new telnet packages that fix the remote root exploit.