In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Stephen Masterman  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>                      Debian/GNU Linux systems may be vulnerable if
>>                      NetKit-B-0.6 is installed. Until the official
>>                      fix-kit is available for Debian/GNU Linux, system
>>                      administrators of Debian systems are advised to
>>                      follow guidelines under Other Linux Distributions
>>                      section.
>
>Anyone have any more comments about this? There is no package called NetKit
>that I know of, I'm just curious if the developers have anything to say?

The debian box I checked had all the netkit bugs in it, every last little
one except for one - the telnetd environment bug.

I've no idea what Debian has chosen to rename netkit as in its internal
packaging system, but at minimum you want to replace

o       rlogin          (TERM bug - present in all commercial systems I've
                         tried so ask vendors for a fix too)
o       talkd           (DNS spoofing flash bug, also spoof scribble)

Note: the rlogin bug requires an account to exploit

o       rdist           IF you are running it setuid (buffer overrun as
                        seems traditional in older 4.x BSD derived code)

Alan
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