On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 06:01, Avi Schwartz wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 01:58 AM, T. Ribbrock wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 10:05:18PM -0500, Avi Schwartz wrote:
> >> Today, Mandrake has issued a security update to ssh (BTW, if you did
> >> not update it yet, you better do it soon, before the exploit starts
> >> circulating).
> > [...]
> >
> > Well, while updating is definitely recommended, at least there seems to
> > be no reason to panic yet. Quote from the OpenSSH advisory:
> >
> > "All versions of OpenSSH's sshd prior to 3.7.1 contain buffer
> >  management errors.  It is uncertain whether these errors are
> >  potentially exploitable, however, we prefer to see bugs fixed 
> > proactively."
> >
> > Nonetheless, I just *love* the approach of the OpenSSH team. Would be
> > great if everybody did it that way.
> >
> When it comes to SSH, I am always nervous.  In the past, the admin at 
> the time, failed to update SSH and it was used to break into 3 of our 
> machines.  So, yeah, I am nervous :-)
> 
> Avi

True enough.  But compared to Telnet it's a vault.   


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