Re: [oss-security] Telnetd Vulnerability Report

telnet is extremely old and just because there is still widespread use of =
telnet or the daemon, doesn't provide a valid reason to keep using it. =
these trivial vulnerabilities keep popping up and if you still insist of =
using telnet, you deserve getting pwned


On Wednesday, February 25th, 2026 at 3:31 AM, Lyndon Nerenberg =
(VE7TFX/VE6BBM) <[email protected]> wrote:

> > On Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 05:05:58AM -0500, [email protected] wrote:
> > > Who uses telnet anyway? It's deprecated. Everyone uses ssh for any =
kind of
> > remote access.
>=20
> TELNET !=3D login.  Before you utter those words again in the same
> sentence, please read the Telnet RFC.  Notice how the term "login"
> appears nowhere in that document.
>=20
> Telnet is a general purpose way to obtain a remote terminal connection.
> That it is sometimes used for remote logins is simply a byproduct
> of terminals being used to remotely log in to hosts.  But it's far
> from the only thing Telnet is used for.
>=20
> --lyndon
>