Linked 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."
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2006-09-24
Well thanks to you and the previous poster we now know who the retards are that are still running telnet in 2007. You can put me in the "blame the admins" crowd if you like. I am an admin myself and would deserve to be fired if I ever even thought of turning on telnet over an open network.