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

[Edsel Adap <edsel () adap org>]

Nate Eldredge wrote:
> I have now set up a virtual Solaris 8 box to test this with root access, 
> and it appears you are correct.  When run as root, "login -f root" 
> presents a login prompt, just like login without arguments.  So it is 
> not "supported" in the sense of having the Solaris 10 documented behavior.

I tested this as well on a Solaris 8 box.  I did not get the behavior 
you described.

# uname -a
SunOS skyhawk 5.8 Generic_108528-29 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-100
# /bin/login -froot
Not on system console

As you can see, it did not prompt me for a password.  Obviously the -f 
option is recognized and its semantics are implemented.

However telnet could not be used to exploit it in the same was a Solaris 
10 was exploited.

> Using "strings" to look at the getopt option list reveals that an 
> undocumented "-a" option also exists.  I don't know what it does, 
> either. More material for the backdoor conspiracy theorists, I suppose. 
> Fortunately there doesn't appear to be a "-nsakey" option.

As far as the -a option, it does not do anything.  The OpenSolaris 
source says:

case 'a':
   break;

I'm guessing that this behavior is left over from the older versions of 
Solaris.


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