On Jan 30, 2006, at 2:51 PM, framirez@xxxxxxxx wrote:
If you flood the telnet configuration a couple dozen times with
long
strings, eventually the telnetd service flat out dies. Routing
functions
of the NetDSL continue to work fine as before. It is unknown
whether only
the telnetd service is affected, other means of remote
configuration may
have become unavailable as well.
I reported this vulnerability to bugtraq on 2002-02-09. Nice to see that now, four years later, the vulnerability still exists.
Cheers, Pi