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From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 12:49:23PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote:
> Interesting.
> 
> I could scan the source, but perhaps you already have and can answer
> the following questions:
> 
> 1. Could the bug be exploited by someone who had not authenticated
>    with the server? 
> 
> 2. Can it be worked around by changing the configuration until one
>    has time to patch? (You mention that it's an SSH2 exploit; perhaps
>    one can disable SSH2 and use SSH1 in the interim?)

AFAICT, you need not authenticate, it is not specific to protocol
version 2, and there is no workaround.
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Jacques Vidrine   . NTT/Verio SME      . FreeBSD UNIX       . Heimdal
nectar@celabo.org . jvidrine@verio.net . nectar@freebsd.org . nectar@kth.se