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Re: Solaris 2.6, 7, 8

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher X. Candreva)
Wed Oct 2 16:30:58 2002

Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 14:04:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Christopher X. Candreva" <chris@westnet.com>
To: Dave Ahmad <da@securityfocus.com>
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On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Dave Ahmad wrote:

> I suggest that everyone here who still uses telnet disable it immediately.

 . . or install the latest Recomended patch cluster, which you should have
done anyway.

> These may be fixes for this vulnerablity, however they apply to telnetd
> and this vulnerability has to be in login.

There are patches for /bin/login as well  On Solaris 8 it's 111085-02, dated
Dec 13 2001:

I haven't been able to reproduce this on a system with 111085-02 installed.


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