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Mac OS X & Darwin/BSD vulnerable to telnetd overflow


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Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 06:17:50 +0100
From: Nathan Ollerenshaw <chrome@stupendous.net>
To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Subject: Mac OS X & Darwin/BSD vulnerable to telnetd overflow

[titanium:~/desktop] chrome% ./SPtelnetAYT localhost
Telnetd AYT overflow scanner, by Security Point(R)
Host: localhost
Connected to remote host...
Sending telnet options... stand by...
Telnetd on localhost vulnerable
[titanium:~/desktop] chrome% telnet localhost
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.stupendous.net.
Escape character is '^]'.

Darwin/BSD (titanium) (ttyp5)

login: ^]
telnet> close
Connection closed.

Note that by default telnet is disabled in /etc/inetd.conf (as are 
most things, except for portmapper/NFS, ugh) so the impact should be 
minimal. If you're not using the OpenSSH included with OS X, you're 
mad.

This was tested successfully on Mac OS X 10.0.4 from both the local 
machine, and from a remote Sparc Solaris 2.7 host.

I'd notify Apply, only I have no idea what address to use, and it's 
6am and I've not slept yet (catching up to bugtraq from a 2 week 
holiday, wow, that Code Red thing was bad, glad I wasn't around when 
THAT baby hit, ho ho ho)

Nathan.

-- 
"The computer can't tell you the emotional story.
  It can give you the exact mathematical design, but
  what's missing is the eyebrows." - Frank Zappa

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