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Re: Probable SSH Vulnerability



On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 14:18:44 -0400
Tim Peeler <thp@linux00.LinuxForce.net> wrote:
> In the last 4-5 days we have had 8 servers come under attack.  We are
> working frantically to keep ahead of these attacks.  We have come to the
> conclusion that the SSH in woody is likely vulnerable.  Of the 8 servers
> that have been broken into, half of them are running 2.2.20 and half
> are running 2.4.18.  We have been updating all servers to 2.4.21-rc8.
> We are ruling out a kernel exploit because of this.  Of the servers
> attacked, one was only running sshd (from woody).  We have not had time
> to analyze where the exploit occurs in sshd, but we are very confident
> that this is the location of the exploit.  We have begun upgrading to
> a backport of the testing version of ssh which appears to be helping.

Could you provide your /etc/ssh/sshd_config, the version of your "ssh"
package, and the output from 'debsums ssh'? Thanks.

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