Berkeley Telnet Kerberos Vulnerability

BID:139

Info

Berkeley Telnet Kerberos Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 139
Class: Design Error
CVE: CVE-1999-1098
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Dec 31 1998 12:00AM
Updated: May 31 2007 07:31PM
Credit: Mr Spooty ([email protected]) first reported the bug in Bugtraq on Thu, 31 Dec 1998.
Vulnerable: BSD Telnet 0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Berkeley Telnet Kerberos Vulnerability

Berkeley telnet client is prone to a vulnerability that affects the experimental telnet encryption option using Kerberos V4 authentication.

Exploit / POC

Berkeley Telnet Kerberos Vulnerability

Currently we are not aware of any exploits for this issue. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: mailto:[email protected].

Solution / Fix

Berkeley Telnet Kerberos Vulnerability

Solution:
A patch exists and is available via anonymous FTP from 'net-dist.mit.edu' in the directory '/pub/telnet'.

The patch (which is also included in this message) can be found in the file '/pub/telnet/telnet.patch'. The file '/pub/telnet/telnet.patch.sig' contains a detached PGP signature of this file.

Users of NCSA Telnet should upgrade to the NCSA telnet 2.6.1d4, which is available from 'ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu' in the directory '/Mac/Telnet/Telnet2.6/prerelease/d4'.

Customers of FTP Software with an encrypting telnet (provided in the PC/TCP or OnNet packages) should call the FTP technical support line at 1-800-282-4387 and ask for the 'tn encrypt patch'.

References

Berkeley Telnet Kerberos Vulnerability

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