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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.