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Date:      Thu, 27 Jun 2002 08:20:40 -0400
From:      Mark Thomas <thomas@pbegames.com>
To:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CERT (Was: Re: NUTS! "Much ado about nothing" -- I need a clearer up or down)
Message-ID:  <5.1.0.14.2.20020627081749.01e19620@pbegames.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020627120929.GA33498@palomine.net>
References:  <20020627065435.A3772@sheol.localdomain> <UqmS8.2068$eH2.1608821@ruti.visi.com> <200206261711.g5QHB9t00396@sheol.localdomain> <xzpr8itxzgm.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20020626210055.A2065@sheol.localdomain> <20020627022949.GA55324@energistic.com> <20020626214957.A2165@sheol.localdomain> <88624007.20020627130948@internethelp.ru> <20020627065435.A3772@sheol.localdomain>

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At 08:09 AM 6/27/02 -0400, Chris Johnson wrote:
>On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 06:54:35AM -0500, D J Hawkey Jr wrote:
> > OpenSSH in RELENG_4_5 (FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE[-pN]) is OpenSSH_2.9.
> > To reiterate, all that has to be done for this version is turn off
> > "ChallengeResponseAuthentication".
>
>The version in RELENG_4_5 does not have this bug, so you don't even have to
>turn off ChallengeResponseAuthentication to be safe from this particular
>vulnerability. You're safe either way.

If you're running older versions be careful. This option may not exist, and 
hupping a server with this in place can cause it to shut itself down, 
leaving you with no daemon running.


Mark Thomas
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