[Gllug] [Fwd: SSH Security Advisory: Centos (and other distros)]

Hari Sekhon hpsekhon at googlemail.com
Wed Jul 8 08:26:30 UTC 2009


Jon Fautley wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:56:46 +0100
> Harry Rickards <hrickards at l33tmyst.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Just wondered if anyone knew whether this affects Debian stable?
>>     
>
> [snip]
>
> So you've got an email from someone asking you to go and install some
> "random" SSH RPMs from a non-vendor site, because of a security hole
> they're not disclosing (or, in fact, confirming)?
>
> Interesting...
>   
That was exactly my thought. You have a problem, so to fix it all you 
have to do is go install some dodgy backdoored rpm from some site you 
don't know...

-h

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