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Re: Solaris telnet vulnberability - how many on your network?
From: Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 14:05:07 -0600 (CST)
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Michal Zalewski wrote:
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Gadi Evron wrote:I have to agree with a previous poster and suspect (only suspect) it could somehow be a backdoor rather than a bug.You're attributing malice to what could be equally well (or better!) explained by incompetence or gross negligence. The latter two haunt large companies far more often, compared to sinister conspiracies. Yeah, a backdoor is a remote possibility. But it's also an arbitrary and needlessly complex one. Maybe it's a nefarious plot by our UFO-appointed shadow government, but chances are, it's not (they have better things to do today). Keep that in mind: when risking so much, of all the places to put a covert backdoor to use for years to come, pulling out a known flaw that will be spotted by many existing vulnerability scanners, and putting it in a service that is often disabled as obsolete and generally unreachable from the outside world, doesn't really make that much sense.
Well, I just can't rule it out. It speaks for itself. Your voice of reason is naturally appreciated. I still believe it is a possibility, as what could be better? In 1994, this wasn't very far-off, nor was this noticable. Probable other explanations are abound, we will see if Sun sets us straight.
Unless, of course, it's a sabotage attempt orchestrated by a joint team of IBM and SCO developers... now, that begins to make sense..
Trucks and tubes I tell ya!
/mz
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