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Date:      Mon, 24 Jun 2002 21:41:53 -0600
From:      "Dalin S. Owen" <dowen@nexusxi.com>
To:        freebsd-lists@albury.net.au
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Hogwash
Message-ID:  <20020624214153.B7100@nexusxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0206251323120.43654-100000@giroc.albury.net.au>; from freebsd-lists@albury.net.au on Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 01:28:08PM %2B1000
References:  <005301c21bf5$b8d32ce0$020aa8c0@aims.private> <Pine.BSF.4.31.0206251323120.43654-100000@giroc.albury.net.au>

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Trusting TCP wrappers is like trusting inetd with heavy load. :)

On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 01:28:08PM +1000, freebsd-lists@albury.net.au wrote:
>=20
> On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Chris Knight wrote:
>=20
> > I don't know what the official response will be, but given the lack
> > of information regarding the exploit, plus it's effect on a privsep
> > enabled ssh, it would be mad not to recommend either turning off
> > sshd, or where that is not possible, use firewalling rules to
> > restrict ssh access to a limited number of hosts.
>=20
> Does anyone know how hosts.allow rules (and/or tcpwrappers) will affect
> this vulnerability?
>=20
> If one has
>    sshd: ip.of.trusted.host, ip.of.also-trusted.host
> in /etc/hosts.allow, is that still "sufficiently" safe to live with in
> the short term?
>=20
> TIA,
> RossW
>=20
>=20
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--=20
Regards,

Dalin S. Owen
Nexus XI Corp.

Email: dowen@nexusxi.com
Web: http://www.nexusxi.com/

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