[rescue] OT: SSH

Phil Schilling rescue at sunhelp.org
Sun Dec 23 04:42:10 CST 2001


Kenneth Caruso wrote:
> 
> Not recently but almost a year ago. I have noticed an increase in scanning
> for this vulnerability in the past month and personally know a couple of
> people and or companies that have been rooted by this exploit. I am
> guessing its the crc attack, only its finally been stupified/coded to the
> script kiddie level. From my understanding disabiling protocol 1 (as the
> exploit is the protocol 1 code) is a good immediate action to take if you
> cannot upgade/patch right away. I believe post 2.2 of openssh is safe.
> 
> Oh heres the notice.
> 
> http://securityfocus.com/bid/2347
> 
> Ken Caruso
> kenc at seattlewireless.net
> http://ken.ipl31.net
> 
> "when in doubt tell the truth" -Mark Twain
> 
<snip>

Thanks to all for the answer, and I did find a couple logs with
sshd:your version is too old and is no longer supported.

Phil

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Phil Schilling
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