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Telnetd AYT overflow scanner, by Security Point(R)
Host: localhost
Connected to remote host...
Sending telnet options... stand by...
Telnetd on localhost vulnerable
[titanium:~/desktop] chrome% telnet localhost
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.stupendous.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
Darwin/BSD (titanium) (ttyp5)
login: ^]
telnet> close
Connection closed.
Note that by default telnet is disabled in /etc/inetd.conf (as are most things, except for portmapper/NFS, ugh) so the impact should be minimal. If you're not using the OpenSSH included with OS X, you're mad.
This was tested successfully on Mac OS X 10.0.4 from both the local machine, and from a remote Sparc Solaris 2.7 host.
I'd notify Apply, only I have no idea what address to use, and it's 6am and I've not slept yet (catching up to bugtraq from a 2 week holiday, wow, that Code Red thing was bad, glad I wasn't around when THAT baby hit, ho ho ho)
Nathan.
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