CVE-2007-0956 Information

Description

The telnet daemon (telnetd) in MIT krb5 before 1.6.1 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and gain system access via a username beginning with a ‘-’ character a similar issue to CVE-2007-0882.

Reference

ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070401-01-P.asc http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Apr/0001.html http://secunia.com/advisories/24706 http://secunia.com/advisories/24735 http://secunia.com/advisories/24736 http://secunia.com/advisories/24740 http://secunia.com/advisories/24750 http://secunia.com/advisories/24755 http://secunia.com/advisories/24757 http://secunia.com/advisories/24785 http://secunia.com/advisories/24786 http://secunia.com/advisories/24817 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200704-02.xml http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102867-1 http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2007-001-telnetd.txt http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1276 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/220816 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:077 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0095.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464590/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464666/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464814/30/7170/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23281 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017848 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-449-1 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-093B.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1218 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1249 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/33414 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10046