From owner-freebsd-security Mon Jan 6 13:27:25 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A28537B401 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 13:27:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from spork.pantherdragon.org (spork.pantherdragon.org [206.29.168.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D326343EC2 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 13:27:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dmp@pantherdragon.org) Received: from sparx.techno.pagans (12-224-208-117.client.attbi.com [12.224.208.117]) by spork.pantherdragon.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFB3210138; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 13:27:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from pantherdragon.org (speck.techno.pagans [172.21.42.2]) by sparx.techno.pagans (Postfix) with ESMTP id 622D7AA98; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 13:27:12 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3E19F4B0.3090903@pantherdragon.org> Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 13:27:12 -0800 From: Darren Pilgrim User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Tancsa Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fwd: OPENSSH REMOTE ROOT COMPROMISE ALL VERSIONS References: <5.2.0.9.0.20030106130825.04a3e0f8@marble.sentex.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mike Tancsa wrote: > > FYI, for those not on bugtraq. The "advisory" is suspect. 1) The language used in the non-technical parts of the message are immature, detracting from the credibility of the author. 2) Most ssh clients sends your logged-in username by default if you don't specify one using the form "user@" on the command line. My PAM-disabled versions of OpenSSH do this. For a group that supposedly spent six months researching OpenSSH, you'd think they'd have noticed. >> Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 19:37:03 -0800 >> To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com >> Subject: OPENSSH REMOTE ROOT COMPROMISE ALL VERSIONS >> From: mmhs@hushmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message