Re: [Nolug] Pine is worse than Evolution

On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 21:45, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
> Just because of the conversation last week re: evolution
> security... Here is someone who claims to have found a
> fully-automatic remote exploit for Pine.
>
> A worm that uses Pine as the infection vector. Oooo! Keep those
> address books safe!
>
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
[snip]

char *lame_cmd =
"/usr/sbin/in.telnetd -L /usr/bin/vi -debug 6682 & /bin/killall -9
pine";

So, will this particular exploit fail if telnetd is not installed
on the system?

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