Re: OpenSSH Vulns (new?) Priv seperation

[John Madden <maddenj () skynet ie>]

This was posted to Bugtraq earlier today. 

http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/278818/2002-06-23/2002-06-29/0

It's the ISS disclosure of the bug. I've read a few more mails about the
privsep issue and there's very mixed feelings about it. I have it
running with compression turned off on a debian server with kernel
2.2.20 since yesterday morning without any trouble. However, I also came
across a mail on the proftpd list (I think) where someone claimed to
have a root exploit already with this enabled. 

Basically, enabling privsep in the config limits the danger of the bug,
but doesn't fix it. If exploited successfully, the attacker will get a
shell which is chrooted and only gives sshd account. 

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Chat ya later,

John.
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