bugtraq - RE: Re[2]: Solaris telnet vulnberability

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0702141854150.5728-100000@linuxbox.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:55:24 -0600 (CST)
From: Gadi Evron <ge@...uxbox.org>
To: "Roger A. Grimes" <roger@...neretcs.com>
Cc: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: RE: Re[2]: Solaris telnet vulnberability - how many on your network?

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Roger A. Grimes wrote:
> Spectulation over whether Microsoft, Sun, or any other vendor
> intentionally put in backdoors just makes our industry seem
> unprofessional. The likelihood that either vendor did is near zero.

Although we ruled this out with Sun's full disclosure (almost completely,
never say 100% in security), no one was accusing Sun.

This is a very important issue: a backdoor does not need to be put there
by the builder.

Example: Linux kernel and two lines of code.

	Gadi.