A warning has been re-issued by the National Infrastructure Protection Centre (NIPC) about a vulnerability in the telnet daemon program following "numerous reports" of intruders exploiting the hole. The NIPC, part of the US government, also fears that users may face . . .
A warning has been re-issued by the National Infrastructure Protection Centre (NIPC) about a vulnerability in the telnet daemon program following "numerous reports" of intruders exploiting the hole. The NIPC, part of the US government, also fears that users may face a flood of worms that attack the vulnerable program using a buffer overflow technique, following the recent discovery of a Unix worm, 'x.c'.

The vulnerability was originally detected in July, primarily affecting FreeBSD-derived telnet daemons, such as those found in Solaris, AIX and some Linux distributions.

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