Re: rssh security announcement
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From: Derek M. <co...@pi...> - 2012-06-05 23:01:03
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On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:46:04AM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 12:24:52PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > > Henrik Erkkonen has discovered that, through clever manipulation of > > environment variables on the ssh command line, it is possible to > > circumvent rssh. As far as I can tell, there is no way to effect a > > root compromise, except of course if the root account is the one > > you're attempting to protect with rssh... > > > > Actually, I have a patch for this. I'll be publishing it later this > week, when I can find some time to do it. I haven't had the time to work up a proper release for this issue, but I do have a patch, which is attatched. Hopefully I'll get some time to do a release this weekend. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D |