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Date:      Thu, 29 Nov 2001 11:06:43 -0800 (PST)
From:      "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Mauro Dias <localhost@dsgx.org>, <security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: sshd exploit
Message-ID:  <20011129105830.G16958-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20011129113349.04722900@localhost>

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On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Brett Glass wrote:

> What's more, we do not know whether the binary exploit that's now being
> distributed across the Net is for this or some other vulnerability.
> As Security Officer, have you run the exploit against 4.4-RELEASE to
> see how it behaves and if 4.4-RELEASE is immune? This is important, since
> without a disassembly we do not know whether the exploit attacks this
> vulnerability or a different (possibly related?) one. We also do not know
> if the claimed fix was fully effective against all possible exploits.

i've run the binary against 4.2-RELEASE to 4.4-RELEASE. in each case the
attack failed.

-- jan

-------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+
  http://caustic.org/~jan                      jan@caustic.org
    "John Ashcroft is really just the reanimated corpse
         of J. Edgar Hoover." -- Tim Triche


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