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A 32-year-old bug walks into a Telnet server
A long, long time ago, in a land free of binary exploit mitigations, when Unix still roamed the Earth, there lived a pre-authentication Telnetd vulnerability. In fact, this vulnerability was born so long ago (way back in 1994) that it may even be older than you. To put the
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Sep 16, 2026 | A 32-year-old bug walks into a Telnet server by paimapi | 112 | 46 |
