Re: Kerberos telnet and today's telnet vulnerability announcement

2001-07-27 Thread Jeffrey Altman
> > Give MIT a few days to do this right. You can use the FreeBSD patch > > in the meantime if you feel there is a significant need. > > Will do. > There are some other things we are doing as well such as adding in support for X Windows Forwarding and perhaps START_TLS. Jeffrey Altman * S

Re: Kerberos telnet and today's telnet vulnerability announcement

2001-07-27 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 08:58:22PM +, Jeffrey Altman wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Nicolas Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > : I can't speak for the MIT folk, BUT, FreeBSD has produced patches to the > : telnetd in their "port" of MIT krb5 v1.2.2, and it applies cleanly to > :

Re: Kerberos telnet and today's telnet vulnerability announcement

2001-07-26 Thread Jeffrey Altman
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nicolas Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 11:44:56AM -0700, Booker C. Bense wrote: : > On 24 Jul 2001, Ken Raeburn wrote: : > : > > Yes, it applies. Tom's working on a patch. : > > : > : > - Is it likely to be much different from the F

Re: Kerberos telnet and today's telnet vulnerability announcement

2001-07-26 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 11:44:56AM -0700, Booker C. Bense wrote: > On 24 Jul 2001, Ken Raeburn wrote: > > > Yes, it applies. Tom's working on a patch. > > > > - Is it likely to be much different from the FreeBSD patches? > (i.e. get rid of nfrontp and use output_data() ?) I can't speak for the

Re: Kerberos telnet and today's telnet vulnerability announcement

2001-07-26 Thread Booker C. Bense
On 24 Jul 2001, Ken Raeburn wrote: > Yes, it applies. Tom's working on a patch. > - Is it likely to be much different from the FreeBSD patches? (i.e. get rid of nfrontp and use output_data() ?) - I'm thinking it would be good to have new deamons in place by the weekend if possible. - Booker C

Re: Kerberos telnet and today's telnet vulnerability announcement

2001-07-25 Thread Nicolas Williams
Cool, these patches apply cleanly to MIT krb5 v1.2.2's telnetd. The only place that's still left doing a bad thing with netobug/nfrontp is a section of code ifdef'ed so only CRAY2 and/or UNICOS systems use it. Thanks, Nico On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 06:11:58PM -0500, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: >

Re: Kerberos telnet and today's telnet vulnerability announcement

2001-07-24 Thread Ken Raeburn
Yes, it applies. Tom's working on a patch. Ken

Re: Kerberos telnet and today's telnet vulnerability announcement

2001-07-24 Thread Jacques A. Vidrine
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 02:24:44PM -0700, John Rudd wrote: > > > So, most of my machines don't use the standard vendor telnet, but > instead use one form or another of a kerberized telnet. Does anyone > know if today's announcement applies to kerberized telnetd's? > > http://www.securityfocus.

Re: Kerberos telnet and today's telnet vulnerability announcement

2001-07-24 Thread Voradesh Yenbut
Yes, it does. I tested as suggested on FreeBSD security list with the following command to our kerberized telnetd, and it dumped core. perl -e '$c=sprintf("%c%c", 255, 246); sleep 10; print $c x1000 . "\r\n"' \ | nc localhost 23 (The nc command is netcat-1.10 from ftp://avian.org/src/h

Re: Kerberos telnet and today's telnet vulnerability announcement

2001-07-24 Thread Jeffrey Altman
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Rudd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : : : So, most of my machines don't use the standard vendor telnet, but : instead use one form or another of a kerberized telnet. Does anyone : know if today's announcement applies to kerberized telnetd's? : : http://www.sec

Kerberos telnet and today's telnet vulnerability announcement

2001-07-24 Thread John Rudd
So, most of my machines don't use the standard vendor telnet, but instead use one form or another of a kerberized telnet. Does anyone know if today's announcement applies to kerberized telnetd's? http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3064 -- John "kzin" Rudd http://people.uc