full-disclosure - Re: PuTTY private key passphrase stealing attack

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Message-Id: <201006021958.o52Jwmcf025862@bari.maths.usyd.edu.au>
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 05:58:48 +1000
From: paul.szabo@...ney.edu.au
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk, joachim@...chimschipper.nl
Subject: Re: PuTTY private key passphrase stealing attack

> ... someone with access to a single account could use this to
> gain the password for that account, and hence possibly sudo access.

Oh yes, someone with access to an account has... access to that.
If he wanted sudo, then just have a fake sudo: one that traps the
password and runs the real sudo after; or one that runs the real
sudo but prepending the "bad" command.

Cheers, Paul

Paul Szabo   psz@...hs.usyd.edu.au   http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics   University of Sydney    Australia

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