[Not OpenSSH!] SSH 3.0 Remote Root Exploit

Contributed by Dengue on 2001-07-22 from the of-course-your-not-using-ssh dept.

Andrew Newman of Yale University, and an anonymous system administrator at the University of Helsinki have discovered a potential remote root compromise in SSH Communications version 3.0 of SSH Secure Shell. There is a problem with password authentication to the sshd2 deamon that could allow any user to access accounts with password fields of two or fewer characters by using any password including an empty one. Version 3.0.1 of SSH Secure Shell fixes this problem. OS's affected include: Linux (many), Solaris 2.6-2.8, HP-UX 10.20 and 11.00. Not affected are Tru64 4.0G, NetBSD, and OpenBSD.

As soon as this is up at BUGTRAQ , I'll post a link to the advisory. Most, if not all of you are probably using OpenSSH , and are unaffected by this vulnerability.

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By jcs () on 2001-07-22 02:48

Bugtraq advisory
By Anonymous Coward () on 2001-07-22 20:10

most, if not all of us, use passwords longer than two characters...

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