Even after DSA-1709, /bin/login in Debian is vulnerable to a local DoS attack; the attacker does not need special privileges to succeed. For details please see http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1709 http://bugs.debian.org/505271 http://bugs.debian.org/505071 I do not know what practical uses this DoS could have.
(Debian and Ubuntu are vulnerable, I believe RedHat is not. I do not know about other distros.) Cheers, Paul Szabo [email protected] http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/ School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
