Re: problem with telnetd patch

From: Kris Kennaway (kris@obsecurity.org)
Date: 07/27/01 

Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 11:39:08 -0700
From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>

On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 07:32:20AM -0400, Matthew Emmerton wrote:
> [ please cc, not on security- ]
>
> Folks,
>
> I just updated one of my client's machines to RELENG_4_3, and attempted to
> update telnetd.
>
> I used:
>
> cd /usr/src/secure/libexec/telnetd
> make depend && make all install
>
> which failed, complaining of unresolved Kerberos symbols.
>
> To fix the problem, I had to add ${LIBKRB} and ${LIBCOM_ERR} to the DPADD
> line of the Makefile, and -lkrb and -lcom_err to the LDADD line of the
> Makefile.
>
> The machine that I was upgrading was a clean install of 4.3-REL from a few
> months ago, no cvsup's of any source since then. Any ideas why I was
> running into this problem?

You had previously built the kerberosIV telnetd and it was picking up
the copy of libtelnet.a which it bogusly installs into /usr/lib. This
was overlooked in the initial advisory.

Kris

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