[luau] Local Root Hole in OpenSSH

MonMotha monmotha at indy.rr.com
Thu Mar 7 20:17:54 PST 2002


Does redhat 6.2 use PAM?  If it doesn't I can statically link you a copy 
that should run no matter what.

--MonMotha

Steve Anderson wrote:
> Yeah, I think it applies to all OpenSSH prior to 3.1. I was able to upgrade 
> our RedHat 7.1 and Solaris machines with the portable 3.1 source. But the 
> same source fails on RedHat 6.2. Our OpenBSD 2.8 machine also failed during 
> the build process for the regular OpenSSH. I found others with the same 
> problems on Google, and the patch for OpenBSD 2.8 was supposed to have been 
> fixed. But the updated 2.8 patch had not made it to the download sites yet, 
> so I turned off SSH on the 2.8 machine. I also turned off SSH on the Red Hat 
> 6.2 machines, and will wait to see what Red Hat comes out with. If anyone is 
> still running Red Hat 6.2 and gets OpenSSH 3.1p to build on 6.2, please let 
> me know.
> 
> Steve Anderson
> 
> On Thursday 07 March 2002 12:11 pm, you wrote:
> 
>>Someone found a hole in OpenSSH.
>>
>>Info at: http://www.pine.nl/advisories/pine-cert-20020301.html
>>
>>Everyone should probably upgrade their OpenSSHs about now.  I'm guessing
>>that OpenBSD is also vulnerable (doesn't say only the portable versions).
>>
>>--MonMotha
>>
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