posted by Thom Holwerda on Mon 12th Feb 2007 18:30 UTC, submitted by stare
If you've got Solaris with telnet running, you could be in for a big surprise. There is a fairly trivial Solaris telnet 0-day exploit in the wild [.pdf]. "This was posted to Full-Disclosure. Remote root exploit in the Solaris 10/11 telnet daemon. It doesn't require any skill, any exploit knowledge, and can be scripted for mass attacks. Basically if you pass a '-fusername' as an argument to the –l option you get full access to the OS as the user specified. In my example I do it as bin but it worked for regular users, just not for root. This combined with a reliable local privilege escalation exploit would be devastating. Expect mass scanning and possibly the widespread exploitation of this vulnerability."
Related Articles
posted by Amjith Ramanujam on Wed 3rd Dec 2008 18:22, submitted by MechaShiva
posted by Thom Holwerda on Fri 31st Oct 2008 19:46 submitted by Robert Milkowski
posted by Thom Holwerda on Wed 3rd Sep 2008 20:22, submitted by amjith
Recent Original Stories
Recent Comments
Headlines
Random Comments
Random Stories
Random OS Links
