From owner-freebsd-security Sun Nov 1 16:03:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA00764 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 16:03:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [207.153.65.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA00722 for ; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 16:03:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA14397; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 19:03:43 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 19:03:42 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SSH vsprintf patch. (You've been warned Mr. Glass) In-Reply-To: <21420.909964705@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Look for details on this tomorrow but here is a patch that addresses the > > vsprintf calls in ssh 1.2.26. > > Is there a provable exploit for this also? Not that I've seen. One is rumored to be floating around. The previous message (forwarded from rootshell to -security by someone else) has most of the info I've seen. I'll attempt to find out more from Alan Cox the next time he jumps on irc. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | 78 280Z | 75 164E | 84 245DL | FreeBSD/NetBSD/Sprite/VMS | | winter@jurai.net | This Space For Rent | ix86,sparc,m68k,pmax,vax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | Are you k-rad elite enough for my webpage? | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message