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Sun Information for VU#745371

Date Notified:2001-07-24
Date Updated:
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Status Summary:Vulnerable

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A buffer overflow has been discovered in in.telnetd which allows a local or a remote attacker to kill the in.telnetd daemon on the affected SunOS system. Sun does not believe that this issue can be exploited on SunOS systems to gain elevated privileges. As there was a buffer overflow, Sun has generated patches for this issue. The patches are described in the following SunAlert:
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