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This only affects the netcat-openbsd package, not netcat-traditional. As stated in a comment on that page, this is also a problem in the netcat-openbsd package

by th 16y ago

This only affects the netcat-openbsd package, not netcat-traditional. As stated in a comment on that page, this is also a problem in the netcat-openbsd package in Jaunty and Karmic. I'm surprised this bug wasn't caught earlier.