SSH issues...

[Thomas Mondoshawan Tate]

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On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 06:43:24PM -0800, Lowell Hamilton wrote:
> That has the signature of an exploited machine.  I have seen several of
> these with the same issues.  When people exploit the CRC-32 ssh hole,
> the rootkits disable ssh to keep others from using the same exploit,
> and it has the affect of locking legit users out as well.  I'm not
> saying it's guaranteed to be it, but it is possible.  If you used any
> redhat distribution or several others they come default with an old
> (pre v2.9) OpenSSH which is vulnerable.
>=20
> Lowell

I built this machine from the ground up from source copies of the latest
distributions of each package. I'm running OpenSSH_3.0p1, with protocols
1.5/2.0. The system was just recently installed to the outside world a few
seconds ago, so it's not possible for it to be rooted this early. =3Dop

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Thomas "Mondoshawan" Tate
phoenix@psy.ed.asu.edu
http://tank.dyndns.org

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