RE: Nokia IPSO Vulnerability

["Jorge Merlino" <jmerlino () easynet com uy>]

1) If a user enters the right password in the voyager login window she is
*authenticated to use the system* IMHO. Besides I don't think anyone
reasonable allows unrestricted access to the voyager web page from the
internet.

2) As I said before, that only works for a+r files, not every file on the
system.

Regards,
        Jorge

-----Mensaje original-----
De: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]
Enviado el: Jueves, 24 de Abril de 2003 14:43
Para: Jorge Merlino
CC: bugtraq () securityfocus com
Asunto: Re: Nokia IPSO Vulnerability


On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 13:32:50 -0300, Jorge Merlino <jmerlino () easynet com uy>
said:
> I don't think that is a vulnerability.
> The file /etc/master.passwd has read access for all users. Monitor can
also
> read it in a ssh session.

1) It being readable to all users *authorized to use the system* is
different
from it being readable to any bozo on the entire Internet.

2) /etc/master.password is used as a *Proof of Concept*.  Feel free to
substitute any other file that might be more damaging to have.  Hmm.. it
might be nice to snarf a copy of /etc/inetd.conf, see what's enabled.. or
maybe I want to grab a copy of.....