Re: inetd.conf -- IPv6 telnet

From: Kris Kennaway (kris@obsecurity.org)
Date: 07/27/01 

Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 11:40:30 -0700
From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: "Andrew R. Reiter" <arr@watson.org>

On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 01:06:12PM -0400, Andrew R. Reiter wrote:
> kris,
>
> just wondering about this thing i just noticed in 4-stable that telnet
> comes default running under IPv6 in inetd.conf. not sure how likely
> someone would exploit over IPv6, but i was wondering about consistancy in
> relation to what's being done already for IPv4?

What do you mean by 'consistency'? It's the same source code (hence
already fixed), and the advisory mentioned disabling both ipv4 and
ipv6 telnetd services as a workaround.

Kris

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