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Re: Probable SSH Vulnerability



On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 02:18:44PM -0400, Tim Peeler remarked:
> 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.
> 
> Tim Peeler

Is there a URL for this backport of which you speak ?

Cheers,
Raymond

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