full-disclosure - SSH Exploit Request

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From: bda at mirrorshades.net (Bryan Allen)
Subject: SSH Exploit Request 

On Nov 14, 2003, at 9:10 PM, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
> You install a borked build of ssh (shared lib dependencies are FUN),
> restart it, your session goes bye-bye, and you can't get back in to
> fix the runaway sshd that's chewing all the resources....

Restarting sshd does not kill running ssh sessions, as they're all 
forked and in memory.
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