Re: Xylan OmniSwitch "features"

From: Chris Sterling (lemmyat_private)
Date: Tue Apr 06 1999 - 15:36:23 PDT

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    The telnet bug does work on 3.1.9
    
    
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    On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, willp2 wrote:
    
    > I tested this on Xylan's 3.2.5 code.
    > I could not reproduce the bug.
    >
    >
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: pmsacat_private <pmsacat_private>
    > To: BUGTRAQat_private <BUGTRAQat_private>
    > Date: Monday, April 05, 1999 1:34 PM
    > Subject: Re: Xylan OmniSwitch "features"
    >
    >
    >
    > To put things real clear, and as I said in the original post:
    >
    > -quote-
    > This was tested on software version 3.1.8 (the latest I can access).
    > -end quote-
    >
    > Although I said the user could login/ftp without knowing either user or
    > password strings, I _didn't_ said it would be just a matter of
    > entering random characters and pressing carriage return (that would be
    > a really funny one, but hey, it's not much further from the real thing).
    >
    >
    > - copy & paste ---------------------------------------------------------
    > [pmsac@localhost pmsac]$ telnet switch
    > Trying www.xxx.yyy.zzz...
    > Connected to www.xxx.yyy.zzz.
    > Escape character is '^]'.
    >
    >
    >
    > Welcome to the Xylan OmniSwitch! Version 3.1.8
    > login   : ajsdkal
    > password:
    >
    >   **********************************************************************
    >
    > Xylan OmniSwitch - Copyright (c), 1994-1998 XYLAN Inc.
    > All rights reserved.
    > -end copy & paste ------------------------------------------------------
    >
    > When you get the password prompt, just press ctrl+d (^D), the user
    > string is arbitrary. You won't get privileges to run any command, not
    > even the "exit" one, you have to close the connection "manually".
    >
    



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