Re: [oss-security] Telnetd Vulnerability Report

Solar Designer <[email protected]> Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:46:33 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.inetutils.bugs,gmane.comp.security.oss.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 07:46:07AM -0500, [email protected] wrote:
> 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

I mostly let these messages through so far (rejecting only one, which
had even less value), but as a moderator I declare end of thread now.
Further messages to this thread will be rejected by default, unless they
truly add something new.

Alexander