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Re: Debian netkit telnetd vulnerability

Subject: Re: Debian netkit telnetd vulnerability
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 15:41:53 -0700
On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 03:11:49AM +0400, Solar Designer wrote:

On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 09:57:19PM +0200, Michal Zalewski wrote:
Exposure:

  Remote root compromise through buffer handling flaws

FWIW, some (two?) distributions have privsep'ed telnetd by now, where
the immediate impact of this flaw (if it were present there) would be
code execution as pseudo-user "telnetd" chrooted to /var/empty. (*)

Debian's telnetd runs as user telnetd, though it does not chroot to
/var/empty.

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 - mdz

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