Re: [oss-security] Telnetd Vulnerability Report
Solar Designer <[email protected]> Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:46:33 +0100
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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