Package: openssh-server Version: 1:5.1p1-4 Severity: important I keep seeing this in the logs from time to time, in burst of 100-1000: sshd[23060]: fatal: PAM: authentication thread exited unexpectedly kernel: sshd[23324]: segfault at 00000000 eip 00000000 esp bfcd73cc error 4 This is probably a brute-force attack, but sshd's handling is worrisome. Even though I cannot reproduce this, nor have more information, I wanted to report this. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages openssh-server depends on: ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy ii dpkg 1.14.24 Debian package management system ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcomerr2 1.41.3-1 common error description library ii libkrb53 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-5 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries ii libpam-modules 1.0.1-4+b1 Pluggable Authentication Modules f ii libpam-runtime 1.0.1-4 Runtime support for the PAM librar ii libpam0g 1.0.1-4+b1 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libselinux1 2.0.65-5 SELinux shared libraries ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8g-14 SSL shared libraries ii libwrap0 7.6.q-16 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii openssh-blacklist 0.4.1 list of default blacklisted OpenSS ii openssh-client 1:5.1p1-4 secure shell client, an rlogin/rsh ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime Versions of packages openssh-server recommends: ii openssh-blacklist-extra 0.4.1 list of non-default blacklisted Op ii xauth 1:1.0.3-2 X authentication utility Versions of packages openssh-server suggests: ii gtk-led-askpass [ssh-askpass] 0.10-2 GTK+ password dialog suitable for ii molly-guard 0.4.4-2 protects machines from accidental pn rssh <none> (no description available) -- debconf information excluded -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@d.o> Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck http://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems
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