[36756] in bugtraq
Re: Debian netkit telnetd vulnerability
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Zimmerman)
Wed Sep 29 20:51:16 2004
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 15:41:53 -0700
From: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>
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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
