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Vulnerability Note VU#881872Sun Solaris telnet authentication bypass vulnerabilityOverviewA vulnerability in the Sun Solaris telnet daemon (in.telnetd) could allow a remote attacker to log on to the system with elevated privileges.I. DescriptionThe Sun Solaris telnet daemon may accept authentication information via the USER environment variable. However, the daemon does not properly sanitize this information before passing it to the login program, and login makes unsafe assumptions about the information. This may allow a remote attacker to trivially bypass the telnet and login authentication mechanisms. In some default configurations of Solaris this vulnerability cannot be exploited to gain access to the root account, but it can be used to gain privileges of other accounts, such as adm and lp.According to Sun, Solaris 10 (SunOS 5.10) and Solaris "Nevada" (SunOS 5.11) are affected by this issue. More information is available in Sun Alert Notification 102802 and in Alan Hargreaves' blog, here and here. Apply the patches referenced in Sun Alert Notification 102802.
You may wish to block access to the vulnerable software from outside your network perimeter, specifically by blocking access to the ports used by Sun Solaris telnet (typically 23/tcp). This will limit your exposure to attacks. Prefer SSH over telnet SSH provides a comparatively more secure method for remotely logging into a system than telnet. As general advice, we recommend using SSH rather than telnet. Systems Affected
Referenceshttp://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-059A.html This vulnerability was reported by Kingcope. This document was written by Art Manion and Chris Taschner.
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