From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Mar 13 8:50:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc54.attbi.com (rwcrmhc54.attbi.com [216.148.227.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BAFC37B41C; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 08:50:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from bmah.dyndns.org ([12.233.149.189]) by rwcrmhc54.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020313165035.OOLT1214.rwcrmhc54.attbi.com@bmah.dyndns.org>; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 16:50:35 +0000 Received: (from bmah@localhost) by bmah.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2DGoWr36860; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 08:50:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah) Message-Id: <200203131650.g2DGoWr36860@bmah.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Udo Erdelhoff Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org, "Bruce A. Mah" , security-officer@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common new.sgml In-reply-to: <20020310191230.E89278@nathan.ruhr.de> References: <200203090112.g291C4A36851@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020310191230.E89278@nathan.ruhr.de> Comments: In-reply-to Udo Erdelhoff message dated "Sun, 10 Mar 2002 19:12:30 +0100." From: bmah@FreeBSD.org (Bruce A. Mah) Reply-To: bmah@FreeBSD.org X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 08:50:32 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org If memory serves me right, Udo Erdelhoff wrote: > Hi, > On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 05:12:04PM -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > > 1.297 +4 -2 src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new. > sgml > > I think there is a small typo/omission in the entry: > > ] This bug could have allowed an authenticated remote user to cause > ] &man.sshd.8; to execute arbitrary code with superuser privileges, > > This part is correct and clear: A 'bad' client can abuse the server > > ] or allowed a connecting SSH client to execute arbitrary > ] code with the privileges of the client user. > > but I think this part should be clearer. According to the advisories > I have read, a 'bad' server can abuse the client. My suggestion > is to replace this part with "or allowed a malicous SSH server to > execute arbitrary code on the client system with the privileges of > the client user". Sorry for the delay. You're probably right here...any comments from the security officer team? Having had to amend this release note once already, I want to finally-get-it-right-this-time-dammit. :-) Thanks! Bruce. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message