[SECURITY] [DSA-070-1] netkit-telnet AYT buffer overflow

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-070-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Robert van der Meulen August 10, 2001 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package : netkit-telnet...

RedHat 7.0 (and SuSE): modutils + netkit = root compromise. (fwd)

Motto from the modprobe manpage: "BUGS: Naah..." ------------------------------------------------ This vulnerability has been found by Sebastian Krahmer some time ago he is posting an advisory right now. Stupid shell command execution within userspace kernel helper application, modprobe, is...