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Re: CVE-2011-4862 is not BSD-specific
From: Huzaifa Sidhpurwala <huzaifas () redhat com>
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 12:51:19 +0530
On 12/25/2011 10:44 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
This is just a heads-up: CVE-2011-4862, a pre-authentication buffer overflow in telnetd recently fixed by FreeBSD is not BSD-specific. It seems to have been added at MIT when the BSD telnetd was Kerberized, and it ended up in the Heimdal recryptofication of Kerberos (from where FreeBSD got it) and later in GNU inetutils. I have reproduced a pre-authentication segfault with both versions (as shipped by Debian). The telnetd from netkit does not appear to be affected.
The patch seems to be applicable though, probably you need to do something else to make it segfault?
-- Huzaifa Sidhpurwala / Red Hat Security Response Team
Current thread:
- CVE-2011-4862 is not BSD-specific Florian Weimer (Dec 25)
- Re: CVE-2011-4862 is not BSD-specific Kurt Seifried (Dec 25)
- Re: CVE-2011-4862 is not BSD-specific Huzaifa Sidhpurwala (Dec 25)
- Re: CVE-2011-4862 is not BSD-specific Florian Weimer (Dec 26)
- Re: CVE-2011-4862 is not BSD-specific Huzaifa Sidhpurwala (Dec 26)
- Re: CVE-2011-4862 is not BSD-specific Florian Weimer (Dec 26)