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Date:      Sun, 3 Aug 2014 17:30:14 +0200
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        User questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: sshd exited on signal 11
Message-ID:  <20140803153014.GB67677@slackbox.erewhon.home>
In-Reply-To: <20140803111317.3b763340@scorpio>
References:  <20140803111317.3b763340@scorpio>

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On Sun, Aug 03, 2014 at 11:13:17AM -0400, Jerry wrote:
> Sun, 3 Aug 2014 11:09:51 -0400
>=20
> My "/var/log/messages" log file has been filling up with these messages f=
or
> days now. What could be causing it? This is just a few of the hundreds th=
at
> are in the file.
>=20
> Aug  2 21:12:28 scorpio kernel: pid 2306 (sshd), uid 0: exited on signal =
11
> Aug  2 21:51:40 scorpio kernel: pid 2373 (sshd), uid 0: exited on signal =
11
> Aug  2 21:52:06 scorpio kernel: pid 2374 (sshd), uid 0: exited on signal =
11
> Aug  2 21:52:25 scorpio kernel: pid 2375 (sshd), uid 0: exited on signal =
11
> Aug  2 21:53:10 scorpio kernel: pid 2376 (sshd), uid 0: exited on signal =
11
> Aug  2 22:50:30 scorpio kernel: pid 2492 (sshd), uid 0: exited on signal =
11
> Aug  2 22:50:54 scorpio kernel: pid 2493 (sshd), uid 0: exited on signal =
11
> Aug  2 22:51:12 scorpio kernel: pid 2494 (sshd), uid 0: exited on signal =
11
> Aug  2 22:51:59 scorpio kernel: pid 2495 (sshd), uid 0: exited on signal =
11

Something is causing sshd to crash with a segmentation violation. And after
that it is probably restarted by inetd.

Maybe an attacker is forcing sshd to crash to gain access? Are there any
connection attempts logged? What happens if you start sshd from the command
line?

Roland
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