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CVE-2007-0882

Argument injection vulnerability in the telnet daemon (in.telnetd) in Solaris 10 and 11 (SunOS 5.10 and 5.11) misinterprets certain client "-f" sequences as va…

Public exploit code

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Impact

Argument injection vulnerability in the telnet daemon (in.telnetd) in Solaris 10 and 11 (SunOS 5.10 and 5.11) misinterprets certain client "-f" sequences as valid requests for the login program to skip authentication, which allows remote attackers to log into certain accounts, as demonstrated by the bin account.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
OracleSolaris
Versions 10, 11
SunSunos
Versions 5.10, 5.11

Weakness classification

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