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Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 22:13:11 -0800
From: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@...gle.com>
To: hackerfantastic@...glemail.com
Cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Multiple telnet.c overflows

On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 5:21 PM Hacker Fantastic
<hackerfantastic@...glemail.com> wrote:
>
> Please see the below proof of concept in triggering the heap overflow using the IAC SB TELQUAL_IS environment option variable assignment. As per my original advisory, which did not fully indicate the details but gave the overview of how to trigger the condition.

Cool, but I think this is a different bug (AFAICT, it's CVE-2005-0469,
it was fixed in netkit, but far fewer distros use inetutils). I agree
this was a real vulnerability, It's a pretty good sign inetutils
should be deprecated imho.

Tavis.

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