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D-Link DIR-600L Hardware Revision B1 (End-of-Life) contains a hardcoded telnet backdoor. The device starts a telnet daemon at boot via /bin/telnetd.sh with the username \"Alphanetworks\" and the static password \"wrgn61_dlwbr_dir600L\" read from /etc/alpha_config/image_sign. The custom telnetd binary accepts a -u user:password flag, and the custom login binary uses strcmp() to validate credentials. Successful authentication grants an unauthenticated attacker on the local network a root shell with full administrative control.  The device has reached End-of-Life (EOL) and will not receive patches.

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This product is End-of-Life (EOL) and will NOT receive patches. Users should replace the device. Temporary: connect via backdoor and run \"killall telnetd\" and \"iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 23 -j DROP\" (lost on reboot).

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