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Re: Working exploit for Debian generated SSH Keys


From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 11:51:59 -0400

On Mon, 19 May 2008 13:51:29 EDT, "Garrett M. Groff" said:

Generating pseudo-random numbers isn't hard given a good API, but writing
that API is non-trivial (assuming you want high entropy/low
predictability). And, apparently, screwing up that API is also very easy.

Of course, if you're trying to write a PoC, you don't need to know how to
code the API - all you need to do is grab the source for the key-tester that
got shipped as part of the OpenSSH patch and snarf out the nicely enumerated
list of all vulnerable keys, and use that list as the brute-forcer, 6 per
connection attempt. ;)

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