On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 02:00:36PM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Sun, Dec 23, 2001, Yotam Rubin wrote about "Re: http://www.linux.org.il/ rants": > > One crucially important update is ssh, whose version on iglu.org.il appears > > to be vulnerable to the CRC compensation bug, which may grant arbitrary > > access to attackers. You can try and convert that Redhat box to Debian, > > which will ease the strain of constantly monitoring updates and allow trivial > > upgradability. If I can assist you in any way, please tell me. > > Right. If I remember correctly, openSSH 2.1.1 *was* vulnerable :( > > There's no need to upgrade to debian for this...
At least there's a consensus that converting to Debian is considered an upgrade :) > > The new openSSH is in the updates directory for probably over 8 months... > please check... SSH scans have increased in frequency, and I have already encountered several machines which were compromised vis ssh. It would be wise to perform an extensive audit of the server. I reiterate, if assistance is required in any of the aforementioned tasks, tell me. Regards, Yotam Rubin > > -- > Nadav Har'El | Sunday, Dec 23 2001, 8 Tevet 5762 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- > Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |If I am not for myself, who will be for > http://nadav.harel.org.il |me? If I am only for myself, who am I? > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]