1) If a user enters the right password in the voyager login window she is
*authenticated to use the system* IMHO. Besides I don't think anyone
reasonable allows unrestricted access to the voyager web page from the
internet.

2) As I said before, that only works for a+r files, not every file on the
system.

Regards,
Jorge

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De: Valdis.Kletnieks (at) vt (dot) edu [email concealed] [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks (at) vt (dot) edu [email concealed]]
Enviado el: Jueves, 24 de Abril de 2003 14:43
Para: Jorge Merlino
CC: bugtraq (at) securityfocus (dot) com [email concealed]
Asunto: Re: Nokia IPSO Vulnerability

On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 13:32:50 -0300, Jorge Merlino <jmerlino (at) easynet.com (dot) uy [email concealed]>
said:
> I don't think that is a vulnerability.
> The file /etc/master.passwd has read access for all users. Monitor can
also
> read it in a ssh session.

1) It being readable to all users *authorized to use the system* is
different
from it being readable to any bozo on the entire Internet.

2) /etc/master.password is used as a *Proof of Concept*. Feel free to
substitute any other file that might be more damaging to have. Hmm.. it
might be nice to snarf a copy of /etc/inetd.conf, see what's enabled.. or
maybe I want to grab a copy of.....

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