(fwd) SECURITY: ATTENTION SLACKWARE USERS!

[Guy W Bzibziak]

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From: lorrie at mellers1.psych.berkeley.edu (Lorrie Wood)
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Subject: SECURITY: ATTENTION SLACKWARE USERS!
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Date: Sat, 04 Nov 95 13:49:15 GMT
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	As many of you know by reading comp.security.announce, CERT has
issued a warning of possible security issues relating to inbound telnets
and shared libraries. This advisory says that all major Linux dists are
vulnerable, except Slackware, which is listed as 'possibly vulnerable.'
	I have spoken with the author of the in.telnetd used with 
Slackware, and he has told me that, YES, the Slackware-provided 
in.telnetd *IS* vulnerable. 
	I urge you, therefore, if you run Slackware with any TCP/IP
connectivity whatsoever, to download and install the fixed in.telnetd.
The author made made one available, andit lives at:

ftp.cymru.net:/pub/linux/security/in.telnetd.gz

	In Slackware 3.0, this should live in /usr/sbin/in.telnetd. 
	I don't know anything about any other distributions, or older
versions of Slackware. The author has given me permission to blather
on the newsgroups about the fix (probably to save him e-mail from 
concerned Linux users like myself), so consider yourselves blathered at.
	The CERT advisory itself is available at:

ftp://ftp.cert.org

	in directory:
	/pub/cert_advisories/CA-95:14.Telnetd_Environment_Vulnerability

	(sorry to split the URL up, but it was too long to fit on an 80-
char line).

- -- Lorrie


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