full-disclosure - More info ? Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 923-1] New dropbear packages fix arbitrary code execution

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Date: Mon Dec 19 19:55:01 2005
From: fw at deneb.enyo.de (Florian Weimer)
Subject: More info ? Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 923-1] New
	dropbear packages fix arbitrary code execution

* Rodrigo Barbosa:

> On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 06:54:40AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
>> A buffer overflow has been discovered in dropbear, a lightweight SSH2
>> server and client, that may allow authenticated users to execute
>> arbitrary code as the server user (usually root).
>
> Does anyone can provide pointers to this issue ? Maybe a paper ?

Look up CVE-2005-4178 in NVD, and you'll find a reference to Matt
Johnston's announcement:

<http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/dropbear/2005q4/000312.html>