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| Subject: | RE: [BLACKLIST] [Full-disclosure] Solaris telnet vulnberability - how many on yournetwork? |
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| 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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