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Re: Voluminous SSHd scanning; possible worm activity?
From: Markus Friedl <Markus.Friedl () informatik uni-erlangen de>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 18:37:19 +0100
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 11:44:57PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
Maybe we're seeing some psychological effect here: In the past, people tend to believe that SSH implementations were secure, apart from a few rather esoteric defects without much practical relevance.
But there is just one single (one-year-old) bug that many implementations share. So what you see is that people don't upgrade broken software. Moreover, I think that malloc(0) can happen in many other daemons. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com
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- Re: Voluminous SSHd scanning; possible worm activity? Jay D. Dyson (Dec 10)
- RE: Voluminous SSHd scanning; possible worm activity? Schroeder, Eric (Dec 10)
- RE: Voluminous SSHd scanning; possible worm activity? Jay D. Dyson (Dec 10)
- Re: Voluminous SSHd scanning; possible worm activity? Markus Friedl (Dec 10)
- RE: Voluminous SSHd scanning; possible worm activity? Schroeder, Eric (Dec 10)
- Re: Voluminous SSHd scanning; possible worm activity? Florian Weimer (Dec 10)
- Re: Voluminous SSHd scanning; possible worm activity? Markus Friedl (Dec 11)
- Re: Voluminous SSHd scanning; possible worm activity? Florian Weimer (Dec 10)
- RE: Voluminous SSHd scanning; possible worm activity? Gommers, Joep (Dec 11)
- RE: Voluminous SSHd scanning; possible worm activity? Damien Miller (Dec 11)
- RE: Voluminous SSHd scanning; possible worm activity? Jay D. Dyson (Dec 11)
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- RE: Voluminous SSHd scanning; possible worm activity? Gommers, Joep (Dec 12)
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