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RE: [BLACKLIST] [Full-disclosure] Solaris telnet vulnberability - how ma

Subject: RE: [BLACKLIST] [Full-disclosure] Solaris telnet vulnberability - how many on yournetwork?
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 05:56:47 -0800
From: Thierry Zoller [mailto:Thierry@Zoller.lu] 
Sent: Monday, 12 February, 2007 07:52

GE>     telnet -l "-froot" [hostname]

Should we really consider this a BUG ? With all due respect, this
reads, smells and probably tastes like a backdoor

It's a bug.  I recall it being found and fixed in AIX many years ago.
Embarassing for Sun that it's still in Solaris, though.

It's actually caused by a "feature" of login; the bug is in programs
that exec login and pass "-froot" to it, and in preserving this feature
of login at all.

A quick Google search found Usenet postings about it from 1994; I'm sure
it was known well before then.

-- 
Michael Wojcik
Principal Software Systems Developer, Micro Focus

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