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 threadGlyph2d ago
@0xabad1dea do you have a specific example of such a legit need? I do not typically think of myself as “sheltered” but this one eludes me
Show threadabadidea2d ago
@glyph wander into any factory in the world and you'll find 30yo industrial machinery that's been running the same firmware the entire time and trying to fiddle with it is liable to end the business
Show threadEmma needs ☕️ and paying work2d ago

@0xabad1dea @glyph my wife had to use a robot driven from a computer running Windows 2000 to move samples out of an electron microscope.

That's not telnet, but is similar.

Show threadKevin Karhan 2d ago
@emma @0xabad1dea @glyph I still know some stuff running MS-DOS!
Show threadnick
@kkarhan @emma @0xabad1dea @glyph yeah and not that newfangled dos 4.0 either ...
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