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Re: URGENT SECURITY ADVISORY FOR SSH SECURE SHELL 3.0.0

From: Jaime BENJUMEA <benjumea () dte us es>
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 18:26:48 +0200 (CEST)


Stephanie Thomas wrote:


A potential remote root exploit has been discovered 
in SSH Secure Shell 3.0.0, for Unix only, concerning 
accounts with password fields consisting of two or 
fewer characters. Unauthorized users could potentially 
log in to these accounts using any password, including 
an empty password.  This affects SSH Secure Shell 3.0.0
for Unix only.  This is a problem with password


Does anybody know if previous versions (2.4) are also affected?

Current thread:

Re: URGENT SECURITY ADVISORY FOR SSH SECURE SHELL 3.0.0, (continued)
- Re: URGENT SECURITY ADVISORY FOR SSH SECURE SHELL 3.0.0 Jen B. (Jul 21)
- Re: URGENT SECURITY ADVISORY FOR SSH SECURE SHELL 3.0.0 Marcus Meissner (Jul 21)
- Re: URGENT SECURITY ADVISORY FOR SSH SECURE SHELL 3.0.0 Florian Weimer (Jul 23)
  - Re: URGENT SECURITY ADVISORY FOR SSH SECURE SHELL 3.0.0 Thomas Roessler (Jul 23)
    - Re: URGENT SECURITY ADVISORY FOR SSH SECURE SHELL 3.0.0 Lucian Hudin (Jul 23)
    - RE: URGENT SECURITY ADVISORY FOR SSH SECURE SHELL 3.0.0 Sports (Jul 24)
    - Re: URGENT SECURITY ADVISORY FOR SSH SECURE SHELL 3.0.0 Seth Arnold (Jul 24)
- Re: URGENT SECURITY ADVISORY FOR SSH SECURE SHELL 3.0.0 Marcin Zurakowski (Jul 23)
  - Re: URGENT SECURITY ADVISORY FOR SSH SECURE SHELL 3.0.0 Brian Carpio (Jul 23)
    - Re: URGENT SECURITY ADVISORY FOR SSH SECURE SHELL 3.0.0 Stephanie Thomas (Jul 23)
- Re: URGENT SECURITY ADVISORY FOR SSH SECURE SHELL 3.0.0 Jaime BENJUMEA (Jul 23)
  - RE: URGENT SECURITY ADVISORY FOR SSH SECURE SHELL 3.0.0 Jonathan A. Zdziarski (Jul 23)
- Re: URGENT SECURITY ADVISORY FOR SSH SECURE SHELL 3.0.0 Roman Drahtmueller (Jul 23)
  - RE: URGENT SECURITY ADVISORY FOR SSH SECURE SHELL 3.0.0 Stephanie Thomas (Jul 23)
    - RE: URGENT SECURITY ADVISORY FOR SSH SECURE SHELL 3.0.0 Emre Yildirim (Jul 24)
    - RE: URGENT SECURITY ADVISORY FOR SSH SECURE SHELL 3.0.0 Stephanie Thomas (Jul 25)
    - Re: URGENT SECURITY ADVISORY FOR SSH SECURE SHELL 3.0.0 Eugene Medynskiy (Jul 25)
- Re: URGENT SECURITY ADVISORY FOR SSH SECURE SHELL 3.0.0 Antonomasia (Jul 23)
- RE: URGENT SECURITY ADVISORY FOR SSH SECURE SHELL 3.0.0 Vega, Cesar (Jul 25)
  - RE: URGENT SECURITY ADVISORY FOR SSH SECURE SHELL 3.0.0 Stephanie Thomas (Jul 26)