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Re: The lowdown on SSH vulnerability
From: Daniel Berg <daniel () eds de>
Date: 16 Sep 2003 15:22:24 +0200
Nice conversation, makes clear why Theo is loved by so many people. So what we know now is that possibly core devices like Firewalls and Switches and whatnot could be attacked as well. Can anyone confirm this? Any suggestions on how to workaround this? Cheers Daniel On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 14:25, Carl Livitt wrote:
Straight from the horses mouth, this is a snippet of an email conversation I just had with Theo Deraadt: -------------- Theo, Is there a patch available to patch the off-by-one that has been reported in OpenSSH ? As it is being actively exploited in the wild, I would like to patch my servers ASAP (as you can probably imagine). Thankyou for taking the time to read - and hopefully respond to - this email. Kind regards, Carl --------------- A flamefest ensued, but his answer was: Bugger off, wait like the rest of the planet. ------------- After more flaming abuse, I received this from him: I have been spending the last 10 days making openbsd releases for about 14-15 hours a day for people to use We've been spending hours and hours making openssh release We are dealing with an, as far as we know, unexploitable hole (affects some systems, but not openbsd it is pretty clear) issue for all of you who run other system we've been dealing with this frantically to make something that the internet relies on as good as good as it possibly can be no sleep for 30 hours and you expect me to treat you special? AND YOU EXPECT ME TO TREAT YOU SPECIAL? AND YOU THINK THAT PASTING THAT TO SOME IRC CHANNEL MAKES YOU LOOK RIGHT? and you think that you pasting it to some icb channel makes me feel worth less, when every single hp and cisco switch containing this code is likely vulnerable, and i don't like that, and want to make the world a better place even if it kills me due to stress and lack of sleep because i think that a better world is a better place to live my life? The main point is that " every single hp and cisco switch containing this code is likely vulnerable". Oh dear, this could get nasty.. batten down the hatches... Poor Theo, he needs his rest. Carl. Carl. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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Current thread:
- The lowdown on SSH vulnerability Carl Livitt (Sep 16)
- Re: The lowdown on SSH vulnerability Carl Livitt (Sep 16)
- Re: The lowdown on SSH vulnerability B.K. DeLong (Sep 16)
- Re: The lowdown on SSH vulnerability Mark Vevers (Sep 16)
- RE: The lowdown on SSH vulnerability Andy Wood (Sep 16)
- RE: The lowdown on SSH vulnerability Ivan Dimitrov (Sep 19)
- Re: The lowdown on SSH vulnerability Daniel Berg (Sep 16)
- SSH Vulnerability Dan A. Milisic (Sep 16)
- Re: The lowdown on SSH vulnerability Joe Shevland (Sep 16)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: The lowdown on SSH vulnerability Robert Jaroszuk (Sep 16)
- Re: The lowdown on SSH vulnerability Carl Livitt (Sep 16)