From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Mon Jan 05 2004 - 06:33:47 CST

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TITLE:
GoodTech Telnet Server Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA10526

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://www.secunia.com/advisories/10526/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
From local network

SOFTWARE:
GoodTech Telnet Server for Windows NT/2000/XP 4.x

DESCRIPTION:
Donato Ferrante has reported a vulnerability in GoodTech Telnet
Server, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS
(Denial of Service).

The "telnetd" process does not handle input properly, which can be
exploited to crash it by supplying a very long string.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 4.0.103. Prior
versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 4.0.104.
http://www.goodtechsys.com/

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Donato Ferrante

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.autistici.org/fdonato/advisory/gtsTsXp4.0.103-adv.txt

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