full-disclosure - SSH Exploit Request

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Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.43.0311160838170.10019-100000@tundra.winternet.com>
From: dufresne at winternet.com (Ron DuFresne)
Subject: SSH Exploit Request 

On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Bryan Allen wrote:

>
> 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.


But, there can be other reasons a connection get hosed, and this was what
was being refered to here.

Thanks,

Ron
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