full-disclosure - SSH/OPENSSH HOLE ALL VERSIONS.

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Message-ID: <200303050021.h250LutO012503@mail.secnap.net>
From: ull-disclosure at lists.netsys.com (ull-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com)
Subject: SSH/OPENSSH HOLE ALL VERSIONS.

> A user who can successfully convince another user to write his ssh public key
> to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys will be able to gain access to that machine under
> that user's priveledges.

Worse than that, if you can get them to add your username and password to
root you can get root privledges.

Imagine that.