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Debian netkit telnetd vulnerability Sep 18 2004 07:57PM
Michal Zalewski (lcamtuf ghettot org) (1 replies)

Re: Debian netkit telnetd vulnerability Sep 20 2004 11:11PM
Solar Designer (solar openwall com) (1 replies)

Re: Debian netkit telnetd vulnerability Sep 26 2004 10:41PM
Matt Zimmerman (mdz debian org)

On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 03:11:49AM +0400, Solar Designer wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 09:57:19PM +0200, Michal Zalewski wrote:
> > Exposure:
> >
> > Remote root compromise through buffer handling flaws
>
> FWIW, some (two?) distributions have privsep'ed telnetd by now, where
> the immediate impact of this flaw (if it were present there) would be
> code execution as pseudo-user "telnetd" chrooted to /var/empty. (*)

Debian's telnetd runs as user telnetd, though it does not chroot to
/var/empty.

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- mdz

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