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RE: URGENT SECURITY ADVISORY FOR SSH SECURE SHELL 3.0.0

From: "Jonathan A. Zdziarski" <jonathan.zdziarski () micromuse com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 13:12:07 -0400

Both 2.3.0 and 2.4.0 don't appear to be vulnerable on my system (Intel
Solaris 8).  3.0.0 *was* vulnerable, however, and I was able to easily
exploit the system.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jaime BENJUMEA [mailto:benjumea () dte us es]
Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 12:27 PM
To: Stephanie Thomas
Cc: bugtraq () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: URGENT SECURITY ADVISORY FOR SSH SECURE SHELL 3.0.0

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 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)