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Subject: Re: Remote Root Exploit for Redhat 7.0
From: Max Vision (visionWHITEHATS.COM)
Date: Tue Jan 02 2001 - 11:51:11 CST

Hi, since this was cross-posted to vuln-dev and Bugtraq I think the wider
audience should know the facts...

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Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 12:58:07 -0800 (PST)
From: Max Vision <visionwhitehats.com>
To: "kry_ceklibero.it" <kry_cekLIBERO.IT>
Cc: VULN-DEVSECURITYFOCUS.COM
Subject: Re: Remote Root Exploit for Redhat 7.0

Ew. When you diff the source, it is apparent that this is a plagiarized
exploit that was actually written by DiGiT of security.is [1] (which I saw
posted to their website December 8th!)

Not only that, but this was discussed publicly in September [2], then
fixed by Redhat in early October [3]. Redhat even went so far as to
change the 7.0 ISO image to include the fixed LPRng package Oct 11th [4],
so many recent default installations are not affected. Affected users
that used the old ISO images can still download the RPM updates [5].

[1] http://www.security.is/material/SEClpd.c
[2] http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17756
[3] http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-065-06.html
[4] ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/releases/guinness/i386/iso
[5] ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/i386/LPRng-3.6.24-2.i386.rpm
    ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/SRPMS/LPRng-3.6.24-2.src.rpm

Max

On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, kry_ceklibero.it wrote:
> This exploit compromise Redhat 7.0 box and it allows to gain the root..
> is very dangerous.. please RedHat.com release a patch!!
> This expl take advantage of Lpd.
>
> For download this expl. look www.netcat.it/download/SEClpd.c
>
> Thx To All
> Staff of www.netcat.it
>