full-disclosure - !SPAM! Automated ssh scanning

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

From: jluehr at gmx.net (Jan Luehr)
Subject: !SPAM! Automated ssh scanning

Greetings,

Am Donnerstag, 26. August 2004 16:43 schrieb Ron DuFresne:
> On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Richard Verwayen wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 15:12, Todd Towles wrote:
> > >  The kernel could be save. But with weak passwords, you are toast. Any
> > > automated tool would test guest/guest.
> >
> > Hello Todd!
> >
> > You are right about the passwords, but guest is only a unprivileged
> > account as you may have on many prodruction machines. But they managed
> > to become root on this machine due to a kernel(?) exploit!
> > Should I then consider any woody system to be insecure to let people
> > work at?
>
> If your uasers are not trustable, then they should not have access to
> local systems of yours.  Once a person has a shell, then they are 95% to
> root.

So your point is, there a much already known local root exploits on an 
standard woody system no one cares about?

fup2 debian-security@...ts.debian.org

Keep smiling
yanosz