>running on several Slackware 3.0 machines (all of the vulnerabilities that
>I am aware of are fixed on those, but this one is new for me).
Are you absolutely certain that you have a) replaced in.telnetd w/ a
fixed version or b) have a statically compiled wrapper around /bin/login
to clean the environment of unwanted variables? The description of the
attack leads me to strongly beleive he's attacking w/ the LD_PRELOAD bug.
Curious,
Jacob
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Received on Jul 16 1996