Upcoming OpenSSH vulnerability

Phil Howard phil-openssh-unix-dev at ipal.net
Wed Jun 26 20:15:36 EST 2002


On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 11:50:46AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

| Oh, and if that's not clear from my posting.  I'm not talking
| about Windows/Cygwin only.  It's just the example I know the most
| of.  I'm also talking about systems which are lacking features
| and which won't change since the manufacturer doesn't exist anymore
| or for any other reason.

And some of those machines may be security vulnerable without SSH
even being in the picture.  If a feature is needed for them to be
secure and they don't have the feature, then they are not secure.

But why does everyone wait to the last minute to do this?

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