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Re: Solaris telnet vulnberability - how many on your network?



>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?


The simplest possible fix on such short notice:

http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/diff/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/cmd/cmd-inet/usr.sbin/in.telnetd.c?r2=3629&r1=2923

Casper