abadidea2d ago
enjoyed this telnetd analysis. (if you can’t believe anyone has a legitimate operational reason to run telnet, you live in a cozy world indeed) https://labs.watchtowr.com/a-32-year-old-bug-walks-into-a-telnet-server-gnu-inetutils-telnetd-cve-2026-32746/
A 32-Year-Old Bug Walks Into A Telnet Server (GNU inetutils Telnetd CVE-2026-32746)

A long, long time ago, in a land free of binary exploit mitigations, when Unix still roamed the Earth, there lived a pre-authentication Telnetd vulnerability. In fact, this vulnerability was born so long ago (way back in 1994) that it may even be older than you. To put the timespan

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Show threadRodger2d ago
@0xabad1dea it is delightful “That was so long ago that RISC was still a distant dream.” Made my eye twitch like an old man who realises that his youth has become sufficiently history that the details have flattened out
Show threadLudwig Vielfrass2d ago
@rodgerd @0xabad1dea I feel you. Those RS/6000s and SPARCStations I thought I used in the early 1990s must have been a fever dream!
Show threadStoneBear 
@lerxst I adminned a cluster of 6000's back in the day. I actually liked them. And all telnet... ssh wasn't until '95... @rodgerd @0xabad1dea
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