bugtraq - Re: Debian netkit telnetd vulnerability

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Message-ID: <20040926224152.GC4726@alcor.net>
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 15:41:53 -0700
From: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@...ian.org>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Debian netkit telnetd vulnerability


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.

-- 
 - mdz