RE: Betr.: RE: Automated ssh scanning

["Todd Towles" <toddtowles () brookshires com>]

It could be, but he said it was patched. I didn't run the test of
course. 

I never said it was the kernel however, it could be a service running.
And unknown does not equal zero-day. But the tool got root and he
doesn't know how. That is the point. Kernel, old service, whatever. It
would be nice to find it.

-----Original Message-----
From: Pascal Zoutendijk [mailto:Pascal.Zoutendijk () tbwa nl] 
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 12:15 PM
To: Todd Towles
Subject: Betr.: RE: [Full-disclosure] Automated ssh scanning

Hi,

Maybe I missed a point, but everybody seems to be focussing now on
whether the kernel is vulnerable from a non privileged account. Couldn't
it simply be that he forgot an SSH patch which caused the exploit?



> > > "Todd Towles" <toddtowles () brookshires com> 26-08-04 18:03 >>>
I agree, so we are looking at a unknown local exploit for woody or we
are all missing something. 

-----Original Message-----
From: full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com
[mailto:full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com] On Behalf Of Tig
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 9:28 AM
To: full-disclosure () lists netsys com
Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Automated ssh scanning

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 09:08:15 -0500 (CDT) Ron DuFresne
<dufresne () winternet com> wrote:

> the real thing this user most likely suffered from was the weak 
> account passwd double, guest:guest.  Now, if the admin and other 
> account were setup with strong passwd's and this account was either 
> setup with a strong passwd or not setup at all might be a better test 
> of the stability of ssh and the debain setup in question.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ron DuFresne

I think some people are not really reading or understanding what is
going on. The box was a default install with one or two weak passwords
for _user_ accounts and a _strong_ password for the root.

Withing a short while, the root account was compromised, after the weak
user account was broken. I suggest people re-read what Richard Verwayen
has been saying (in German English, but still very readable :])

Basically, if you have a weak password on a user account, your root
account on a Debain box is screwed, other *nix distros maybe as well.

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