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From: Marco Gigante <marcogi@studenti.ing.unipi.it>
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: telnet bug on FreeBSD ?
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 11:04:58 +0000
Organization: Universita' di Pisa
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Someone know about a telnet(d) bug that permit a user to get root
privileges?

Can you help me?

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