Re: ssh-1.2.27 remote buffer overflow - exploitable (VD#7)

[Ville Herva]

On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 08:13:02PM -0500, you [Niels Provos] claimed:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ville Herva writes:
> >Is there any information on building/installing/using OpenSSH on platforms
> >other than OpenBSD? I would assume that since OpenSSH is AFAIK developed
> >by the OpenBSD team, they may not be too interested in maintaining (or
> >developing) code/build system to support different platforms.
> OpenSSH will ship with the upcoming OpenBSD 2.6 release. 

That I already knew...

> It has also
> been ported to FreeBSD and Linux, and I am sure that there will be
> many more ports in the near future.

But this is more interesting. Are those ports available somewhere? Is the
Linux/FreeBSD port code/build system maintained by the OpenBSD team or
somebody else?
 
> We make the OpenSSH sources directly available to everyone via
> anoncvs, check
> 
>       http://www.openbsd.org/anoncvs.html
> or
> 
>       http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/ssh

I did download the source once. It does not contain plain gmake compatible
Makefile, just the OpenBSD-style one. Perhaps compiling it to Linux is
trivial, but I just had a very quick look.


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