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Re: [EXT] Re: [oss-security] CVE-2023-51767: a bogus CVE in OpenSSH


From: "Theo de Raadt" <deraadt () openbsd org>
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2025 22:10:05 -0600

Peter Gutmann <pgut001 () cs auckland ac nz> wrote:

The general feeling was that it's best just to grin and bear it, you're going
to get them at some point no matter what you do.

This is about two things:

1. a false claim of succesfull exploitation of OpenSSH in a paper.
2. a false claim based upon that paper lands in a CVE.

You are only talking about point 2.  We are talking about point 1 also.

We don't need to grin and bear either, but especially point 1.


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