Bugtraq: RE: [BLACKLIST] [Full-disclosure] Solaris telnet vulnberability - how many on yournetwork?

["Michael Wojcik" <Michael.Wojcik () microfocus com>]

> From: Thierry Zoller [mailto:Thierry () Zoller lu] 
> Sent: Monday, 12 February, 2007 07:52
>
> GE>     telnet -l "-froot" [hostname]
>
> Should we really consider this a BUG ? With all due respect, this
> reads, smells and probably tastes like a backdoor
It's a bug.  I recall it being found and fixed in AIX many years ago.
Embarassing for Sun that it's still in Solaris, though.

It's actually caused by a "feature" of login; the bug is in programs
that exec login and pass "-froot" to it, and in preserving this feature
of login at all.

A quick Google search found Usenet postings about it from 1994; I'm sure
it was known well before then.

-- 
Michael Wojcik
Principal Software Systems Developer, Micro Focus