TESO Security Advisory #11 - Multiple vendor Telnet Daemon vulnerability. Most current telnet daemons in use today contain a buffer overflow in the telnet option handling. Under certain circumstances it may be possible to exploit it to gain root privileges remotely. Affected systems include BSDI 4.x, FreeBSD, IRIX, Linux with netkit-telnetd < 0.14, NetBSD, OpenBSD 2.x, and Solaris.
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