Full Disclosure: Re: Solaris telnet vulnerability - how many on your network?

[Brad_Powell () amat com]

Vincent Archer <varcher () denyall com> wrote on 02/12/2007 04:51:07 AM:

I don't speak for Sun, but here are some hints that might help.
> OS packaging person here (the guy who defines the exact stripped version
> we install on customer appliance) did test with root, and it worked. I
> suspect it is dependent on whether root is enabled as allowed as a 
remote
> login or not (a setting I dimly remember being available on solaris 10
> years ago, I think).
For root login; there is a setting in /etc/default/login. If CONSOLE is 
set, then root can only login
on that device i.e. "CONSOLE=/dev/ttya" means "root" can only login on 
ttya device. Any other user via
telnet/ssh/whatever has to login as themselves and "su" to root.

This doesn't prevent telnet -l "-fbin", or -flp; for those accounts best 
bet is to change /etc/passwd for the shell of system-account users to 
/sbin/noshell or /bin/false (noshell just logs the entry and exists)

Of course disabling in.telnetd in /etc/inetd.conf (and doing a pkill -HUP 
inetd) if possible is a safe bet,
but some sites are forced to use telnetd.

>

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