Re: Solaris telnet vulnberability - how many on your network?

[Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>]

On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 Casper.Dik () Sun COM wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 Casper.Dik () Sun COM 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?

Thanks again,

        Gadi.