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Re: SNI-20: Telnetd tgetent vulnerability (fwd)

Are we vulnerable??

Also, have we fixed the lpd problems?

John

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 16:10:49 -0500
From: Aleph One <aleph1@DFW.NET>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
Subject: Re: SNI-20: Telnetd tgetent vulnerability

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 13:37:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Holland <dholland@eecs.harvard.edu>
To: linux-security@redhat.com
Subject: [linux-security] Re: SNI-20: Telnetd tgetent vulnerability

 > [mod: Executive summary: SNI found recent linux-distributions
 > not-vulnerable -- REW]

Well, it looks a little more complicated than that. If your telnetd is
linked against GNU termcap (as opposed to ncurses), it seems that
there *is* a vulnerability; it looks like GNU termcap doesn't check
for overflow of the initial name portion of the terminal type.

ncurses doesn't touch the buffer in question at all.

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