Re: PuTTY private key passphrase stealing attack

[Joachim Schipper <joachim () joachimschipper nl>]

On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 02:47:07AM +0200, Jan Schejbal wrote:
> PuTTY, a SSH client for Windows, requests the passphrase to the ssh
> key in the console window used for the connection. This could allow
> a malicious server to gain access to a user's passphrase by spoofing
> that prompt.

> Developer notification:
> The possibility of such spoofing attacks is known:
> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/gui-auth.html

> Other software affected:
> Probably many console-based SSH tools have similar issues.

This was also discussed in the context of OpenSSH; I am familiar with
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.network.openssh.devel/16488/focus=16497,
but that was probably not the first time either.

                Joachim

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