Bug 56747

Summary:	telnet 0.10.31 crashes
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Need Real Name <kisero>
Component:	telnet	Assignee:	Harald Hoyer <harald>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	6.1
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://webs.sinectis.com.ar/kisero/telne.bug
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Description Need Real Name 2001-11-26 21:37:20 UTC

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.18pre11-va2.1 i686)

Description of problem:
the telnet client version .010.31 crashs when calls the strcpy() function
(seems that when the argument (host to connect to) is too long crashs. (SIG
11)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
root@snmon /root]# telnet
sinectis-rogelioibarra.rogelioibarra-enlace.capfed1.sinectis.com.ar
Trying 216.244.192.63...
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
[root@snmon /root]#

Actual Results:  Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Expected Results:  [kisero@kisero kisero]$ telnet
sinectis-rogelioibarra.rogelioibarra-enlace.capfed1.sinectis.com.ar
Trying 216.244.192.63...
Connected!


Additional info:

the url i set explains step by step wehat i did to verify the bug. i tested
in three differetn plataforms (HP and Compaq i386) 

the version must be Cartman (6.1) 

greets, kisero

Comment 1 Harald Hoyer 2001-12-13 13:47:28 UTC

6.1 is unsupported. recommendation: upgrade to 6.2..

Upgrade to 6.2's:
telnet-0.16-6.i386.rpm
telnet-server-0.16-6.i386.rpm

or better the update for 6.2:
telnet-0.17.6x-18.i386.rpm             
telnet-server-0.17.6x-18.i386.rpm