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Re: Multiple vulnerabilities in CDE

From: nickc () STAFFNET COM (Nick_)
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 12:57:57 -0500


Searching the achives, I've not seen any reply to this, have these
questions been answered yet?  In regards to Sun, is there a patch
in the works, and if not how have other vendors fixed the problem?

-Nick

Date sent:              Tue, 14 Sep 1999 18:53:23 -0400
Send reply to:          Dan Astoorian <djast () PPP12 UTOPIA CSAS COM>
From:                   Dan Astoorian <djast () PPP12 UTOPIA CSAS COM>
Subject:                Re: Multiple vulnerabilities in CDE
Originally to:          BUGTRAQ () SECURITYFOCUS COM
To:                     BUGTRAQ () SECURITYFOCUS COM

On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 23:46:53 EDT, "Troy A. Bollinger" writes:


Here's the CERT advisory that was released today.  Of course, it's also
available at www.cert.org.

[...]

   Sun Microsystems, Inc.

   Vulnerability #1:

          Systems running Solaris 7, 2.6, 2.5.1, 2.5, 2.4, and 2.3, and
          SunOS 4.1.4 and 4.1.3_U1 are vulnerable if the UNIX
          authentication mechanism (default) is used with ttsession.

          The use of DES authentication is recommended to resolve this
          issue. To set the authentication mechanism to DES, use the

[...]

The way they've worded this very much makes it sound as though patches
are not forthcoming.

Is this a design flaw, or an oversight in the implementation?

If the former, why is it that other vendors (e.g. IBM) are releasing
patches claiming to fix the problem?  And, if the latter, is Sun
*really* saying "instead of fixing the problem, we're going to tell all
of our customers to use DES authentication, and if they can't or won't,
then to hell with them"?

(Anyone know any decent references for setting up Secure RPC under
Solaris, particularly if NIS or NIS+ is not in use?)

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