linux security - May 2000 - Re: [Security - intern] Re: ssh and chroot...

Good call - I forgot to mention that.  Caldera released an advisory a couple
months ago about it if anyone's interested:

ftp://ftp.calderasystems.com/pub/OpenLinux/security/CSSA-2000-008.0.txt

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Biege [mailto:thomas@suse.de]
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2000 2:44 AM
To: David LaPorte
Cc: Mike Bowie; linux-security@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Security - intern] [linux-security] Re: ssh and chroot...


On Mon, 8 May 2000, David LaPorte wrote:
> I did something similar with telnetd by hacking login to accept an option
> that specified a directory to chroot to and specifying it via telnetd
"-L"
> option.  I suppose the same thing would work with ssh if you compiled with
Please take care here. Some telnetd versions use a non-secure way to alter
their **argv to reflect the host which is connected to them.
A maliciously formated hostname/DNS entry could be used to overwrite the
value of the -L option to bypass the usersupplied login program.

The maintainer of netkit has fixed it, AFAIK.
So, it's wiser to update to the most recent version of netkit.

Bye,
     Thomas
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