[Gllug] [Fwd: [SECURITY] [DSA-134-1] OpenSSH remote vulnerability]
Nix
nix at esperi.demon.co.uk
Sat Jun 29 15:49:08 UTC 2002
On 28 Jun 2002, Mark Lowes stated:
> On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 08:28, Nix wrote:
>> (I've temporarily firewalled off sshd and am using this as an excuse to
>> upgrade to 2.4 ;} )
>
> Firewalls in front of tcpwrappers in front of a large machine gun nest.
Now, now, nowhere near severe enough. Any successful attackers get
seduced into providing a valid email address, which is then submitted to
numerous spammers' mailing lists.
(I'd do this, too, if I could work out how to entice the attacker into
giving me his address easily.)
--
`What happened?'
`Nick shipped buggy code!'
`Oh, no dinner for him...'
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