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Re: Some revelations about ssh and stackpatch


From: peak () kerberos troja mff cuni cz (Pavel Kankovsky)
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 22:13:15 +0100


On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, M.C.Mar wrote:

execl("/path_to_sshd/sshd","AAAAAA....[about 2000]",0);
'Cos I have stackpatch applied I saw something very strange in my
logs:
Nov  2 16:29:52 emsi <BUFFER OVERRUN ATTEMPT>[21738]: log: Server listening on port 22.
Nov  2 16:29:52 emsi <BUFFER OVERRUN ATTEMPT>[21738]: log: Generating 768 bit RSA key.
Nov  2 16:29:53 emsi <BUFFER OVERRUN ATTEMPT>[21738]: log: RSA key generation complete.

"<BUFFER OVERRUN ATTEMPT>" means that syslog() in (Linux) libc does not
like your argv[0], this is not a feature or bug or anything of sshd

--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak  [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"You can't be truly paranoid unless you're sure they have already got you."



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