OpenSSH Security bug: port forwarding
Pekka Savola
pekkas at netcore.fi
Tue Nov 21 03:17:43 EST 2000
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Peter Berger wrote:
> Yes, I had GatewayPorts set to 'no' -- this is clearly not a bug in ssh,
> but in the version of Linux I'm using. When I debugged, ssh was binding
> to 0.0.0.0.
>
> Oh well. We shouldn't be using Linux as a firewall anyway.
Try upgrading the kernel and/or glibc; that should be done for stability,
security and speed reasons anyway.
getaddrinfo as defined in fake-getaddrinfo.c is failing for you, probably.
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