decnet/ultrix bug in "telnetd.gw"
Java Man
matt at oddjob.UUCP
Thu Apr 14 09:55:06 AEST 1988
Under Ultrix 2.0, users cannot telnet into our microvax from a host
with a long name. The process telnetd.gw core dumps. From adb I can
see that the source hostname kepler.yerkes.uchicago.edu was strcpy()d
into a 24 byte buffer and hence clobbered the next variable.
Strangely enough, editing /etc/hosts to call the remote host simply
"kepler" doesn't work either. Telnetd.gw doesn't core dump, but it
does die with a signal after printing its hostname but before
"login:" is printed. I don't understand this at all!
We bought updates, but 2.2 hasn't come yet, and I don't know if a new
release of decnet/ultrix comes along with it. Does anyone know if
this bug will be fixed?
Matt Crawford
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