Re: OpenSSH

From: Peter Bruderer (brudy@bruderer-research.com)
Date: Sat Sep 07 2002 - 01:52:33 EDT


First of all, go to openssh-3.4p1
openssh 3.2.2 is still vulnerable.

Second: have you set

ChallengeResponseAuthentication no
UsePrivilegeSeparation yes
PAMAuthenticationViaKbdInt no

in the config file?

On Friday 06 September 2002 20:41, Jeremy Junginger wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am back again, and auditing an internally accessible ssh server for
> the challenge-response buffer overflow. I'll keep it brief:
>
> OS: RedHat Linux (6.2)
> SSH Version: SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_3.1p1
>
> I have already done the following:
>
> Downloaded and extracted openssh-3.2.2p1.tar.gz
> Patched the client with ssh.diff (patch < ssh.diff)
> Compiled patched client ( ./configure && make ssh)
> Run the "patched" ssh (./ssh x.x.x.x)
>
> I am receiving the following output
> ./scanssh 172.16.51.23
> [*] remote host supports ssh2
> [*] server_user: root:skey
> [*] keyboard-interactive method available
> [x] bsdauth (skey) not available
> Permission denied (publickey,password,keyboard-interactive).
>
> I have not investigated any further, but don't feel comfortable calling
> the service "secured" without a little peer review. Do you have any
> tips on manipulating the method, style, repeats, chunk size, or
> connect-back shellcode repeat? Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks, and have a great day!
>
> -Jeremy

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