Bug 229782 (CVE-2007-0956)

Summary:	CVE-2007-0956 Unauthorized access via krb5-telnet daemon
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Marcel Holtmann <holtmann>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
Severity:	urgent	Docs Contact:
Priority:	urgent
Version:	unspecified	CC:	jplans, nmiell, security-response-team
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OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	RHSA-2007-0095	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Marcel Holtmann 2007-02-23 14:36:08 UTC

The MIT krb5 telnet daemon (telnetd) allows unauthorized login as an arbitrary
user, when presented with a specially crafted username. This is a vulnerability
in an application program; it is not a bug in the MIT krb5 libraries or in the
Kerberos protocol.

A user can gain unauthorized access to any account (including root) on a host
running telnetd. Whether the attacker needs to authenticate depends on the
configuration of telnetd on that host.

The telnetd in all releases of MIT krb5, up to and including krb5-1.6 are affected.

Comment 1 Mark J. Cox 2007-02-23 14:59:46 UTC

Note that by default we do not enable telnetd in RHEL and the firewall in RHEL
defaults to blocking external access to telnet.  

A server would be vulnerable to this flaw only if they enable krb5 telnetd using
"chkconfig krb5-telnet on" and set the firewall to allow incoming connections to
the telnet port.

Comment 4 Mark J. Cox 2007-03-06 08:52:44 UTC

Embargo moved by MIT to 20070403

Comment 8 Mark J. Cox 2007-03-27 10:20:21 UTC

Note that this issue is similar to the telnetd flaw found in Solaris:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/881872
However the technicalities of the flaw are different, and exploitation is
different.  Therefore the exploits for the Solaris telnetd flaw, and the worm
that exploits the Solaris issue do not successfully exploit this issue.  

Whilst we are not aware of this issue currently being exploited we have
confirmed that an exploit is possible and is fairly easy to create.

Comment 10 Mark J. Cox 2007-04-03 18:08:30 UTC

Now public, removing embargo

Comment 11 Red Hat Bugzilla 2007-04-03 18:21:32 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0095.html

Comment 12 Lubomir Kundrak 2008-04-08 12:51:10 UTC

*** Bug 228233 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***