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Re: More info ? Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 923-1] New dropbear packages fix arbitrary code execution

From: Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de>
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 20:53:43 +0100

* Rodrigo Barbosa:

On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 06:54:40AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:

A buffer overflow has been discovered in dropbear, a lightweight SSH2
server and client, that may allow authenticated users to execute
arbitrary code as the server user (usually root).


Does anyone can provide pointers to this issue ? Maybe a paper ?


Look up CVE-2005-4178 in NVD, and you'll find a reference to Matt
Johnston's announcement:

<http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/dropbear/2005q4/000312.html>
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[SECURITY] [DSA 923-1] New dropbear packages fix arbitrary code execution Martin Schulze (Dec 18)
- More info ? Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 923-1] New dropbear packages fix arbitrary code execution Rodrigo Barbosa (Dec 19)
  - Re: More info ? Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 923-1] New dropbear packages fix arbitrary code execution Florian Weimer (Dec 19)