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Re: Voluminous SSHd scanning; possible worm activity?


From: Markus Friedl <markus () openbsd org>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 12:27:04 +0100

On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 04:58:21PM -0800, jon schatz wrote:
(ie, UseLogin and sftp)

they cannot be related to ssh scanning (and if they are a
problem to a site they are _local_ problems).

even if there was a new exploit, most of the scanning will
be related to the crc32 bug, since about 30% of the servers
are still not upgraded:

        http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/ssh/

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