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Authored by: jitjat on Jan 13, '03 09:15:01PM

I believe older versions of talkd didn't check for ;'s in domain names and used system commands. In theory, someone could talk to a machine and pass commands after the ;. Since talkd runs under root, damage could be done.

I don't know if the ntalkd that comes with OS X has fixed this problem but I am fairly certain that it was fixed in FreeBSD...



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