A patch has been released. http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102802-1 ================================================== David Taylor //Sr. Information Security Specialist University of Pennsylvania Information Security Philadelphia PA USA (215) 898-1236 http://www.upenn.edu/computing/security/ ================================================== -----Original Message----- From: full-disclosure-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:full-disclosure-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Shamblin Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 7:17 PM To: Casper.Dik@xxxxxxx Cc: Oliver Friedrichs; bugtraq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; full-disclosure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Gadi Evron Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Solaris telnet vulnberability - how many onyour network? Casper.Dik@xxxxxxx 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? > > > The simplest possible fix on such short notice: > > http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/diff/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/cmd/cmd-inet/u sr.sbin/in.telnetd.c?r2=3629&r1=2923 > > Casper How about just uncommenting the following from /etc/default/login # If CONSOLE is set, root can only login on that device. # Comment this line out to allow remote login by root. # CONSOLE=/dev/console Not a fix to be sure, but at least prevents a remote login. Joe -- Joe Shamblin wjs@xxxxxxxxxxx Senior Systems Administrator Department of Computer Science (919) 660-6582 Duke University _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
