Re: Solaris telnet vulnberability - how many on your network?
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Gadi Evron wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 Casper.Dik@xxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > >On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 Casper.Dik@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > >>
> > >> >
> > >> >Am I missing something? This vulnerability is close to 10 years old.
> > >> >It was in one of the first versions of Solaris after Sun moved off of
> > >> >the SunOS BSD platform and over to SysV. It has specifically to do w=
> > >> >ith
> > >> >how arguments are processed via getopt() if I recall correctly.
> > >>
> > >> You're confused with AIX/Linux
> > >>
> > >> Solaris did not have the -f option in login until much later.
> > >
> > >Hi Casper. While we have you here, any idea on when Sun will be patching
> > >this issue?
> >
> > Now, follow the links from http://sunsolve.sun.com/tpatches
> >
> > Casper
> >
>
> Many thanks Casper! Can you give some more information on exactly what is
> patched. Any Sun released advisory?
Specifically, more than:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102802-1&searchclause=%22category:security%22%2420%22availability,%2420security%22%2420category:security
Because of the wide implications of this particular issue?
Also, any idea on how this vulnerability was introduced?
Thanks again,
Gadi.