Bug#130876: ssh: -5 discloses too much infomation to an attacker, security

2002-02-10 Thread Matthew Vernon
Wichert Akkerman writes: > Previously Matthew Vernon wrote: > > retitle 130876 Sending server software version information should be > > optional > > I'm not sure I agree with that: that easily leads to the configurable > version response option that was discussed on openssh-dev recently wh

Re: Bug#130876: ssh: -5 discloses too much infomation to an attacker, security

2002-02-10 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Matthew Vernon wrote: > retitle 130876 Sending server software version information should be optional I'm not sure I agree with that: that easily leads to the configurable version response option that was discussed on openssh-dev recently where it was concluded that is not a good idea.

Bug#130876: ssh: -5 discloses too much infomation to an attacker, security

2002-02-10 Thread Matthew Vernon
retitle 130876 Sending server software version information should be optional severity 130876 wishlist quit I'll get back to you in more detail when I have time, but in the mean time - if you want to produce and maintain (since I'm damn sure upstream wouldn't want to know) a patch that creates a c

Bug#130876: ssh: -5 discloses too much infomation to an attacker, security

2002-02-10 Thread Matthew Vernon
Wichert Akkerman writes: > Previously Matthew Vernon wrote: > > retitle 130876 Sending server software version information should be optional > > I'm not sure I agree with that: that easily leads to the configurable > version response option that was discussed on openssh-dev recently where

Re: Bug#130876: ssh: -5 discloses too much infomation to an attacker, security

2002-02-10 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Matthew Vernon wrote: > retitle 130876 Sending server software version information should be optional I'm not sure I agree with that: that easily leads to the configurable version response option that was discussed on openssh-dev recently where it was concluded that is not a good idea.

Re: Bug#130876: ssh: -5 discloses too much infomation to an attacker, security

2002-02-10 Thread Alex Pennace
On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 02:47:11AM +, Lazarus Long wrote: > As I have said in the past, this is definitely a security risk. > There is no reason that such information should be exposed to attackers. We may as well take down the debian.org web pages, since they expose a wealth of information to

Re: Bug#130876: ssh: -5 discloses too much infomation to an attacker, security

2002-02-10 Thread Florian Weimer
Lazarus Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As I have said in the past, this is definitely a security risk. No, it isn't. The fact that the SSH protocol encourages implementors to exhibit version numbers has helped us greatly while recovering from the catastrophic buffer overflow bug. > Of cours

Bug#130876: ssh: -5 discloses too much infomation to an attacker, security

2002-02-10 Thread Matthew Vernon
retitle 130876 Sending server software version information should be optional severity 130876 wishlist quit I'll get back to you in more detail when I have time, but in the mean time - if you want to produce and maintain (since I'm damn sure upstream wouldn't want to know) a patch that creates a

Re: Bug#130876: ssh: -5 discloses too much infomation to an attacker, security

2002-02-10 Thread Alex Pennace
On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 02:47:11AM +, Lazarus Long wrote: > As I have said in the past, this is definitely a security risk. > There is no reason that such information should be exposed to attackers. We may as well take down the debian.org web pages, since they expose a wealth of information t

Re: Bug#130876: ssh: -5 discloses too much infomation to an attacker, security

2002-02-10 Thread Christian Kurz
On 10/02/02, Lazarus Long wrote: > On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 12:25:08PM +, Matthew Vernon wrote: > > Lazarus Long writes: > > > Introduces security hole by divulging too much information to an > > > attacker about the underlying system. > > The rationale behind this, is that there are man

Re: Bug#130876: ssh: -5 discloses too much infomation to an attacker, security

2002-02-10 Thread Christian Kurz
On 10/02/02, Lazarus Long wrote: > On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 12:25:08PM +, Matthew Vernon wrote: > > Lazarus Long writes: > > > Introduces security hole by divulging too much information to an > > > attacker about the underlying system. > > The rationale behind this, is that there are ma

Re: Bug#130876: ssh: -5 discloses too much infomation to an attacker, security

2002-02-09 Thread Lazarus Long
reopen 130876 severity 130876 grave thanks As I have said in the past, this is definitely a security risk. There is no reason that such information should be exposed to attackers. 'dpkg -l ssh' provides a Debian-specific version string, and there is no reason this needs to be exposed to those who

Re: Bug#130876: ssh: -5 discloses too much infomation to an attacker, security

2002-02-09 Thread Lazarus Long
reopen 130876 severity 130876 grave thanks As I have said in the past, this is definitely a security risk. There is no reason that such information should be exposed to attackers. 'dpkg -l ssh' provides a Debian-specific version string, and there is no reason this needs to be exposed to those wh