Re:

All versions of ssh up to 3.4 are open to the ssh vulnerability in question 3.1 vanilla ships with 3.2 I believe...

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-misc@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-misc@openbsd.org] On Behalf Of Bruno Saverio Delbono
Sent: 11 November 2002 22:49
To: Jon Quiros; misc@openbsd.org
Subject: Re:

At 05:34 PM 11/11/2002 -0500, Jon Quiros wrote:
>I got back from a trip last night and noticed a new user in my passwd

Neat. A hacker! :-)...stupid one too :P

>koped:*:1010:10:Mr. Kopad Koped:/home/koped:/bin/csh

>these are the connections i see the person made (as koped):

He never cleaned the /var/log for his trace? Interesting...

>Nov 9 13:39:13 tlaloc sshd[10102]: Accepted password for koped from

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>I also see this for one of the addresses in authlog:

I get a hundred of these a day at times. I wonder who would want to brute-force via ssh (*sigh*)

Does it look like
>a) a brute force attack to ssh right when i set pf to allow ssh

No.

>b) could i have been compromised through the then unpatched smrsh

You need a local account for this.

>c) i haven't the nearest clue but you can help me see things i'm not

I may go as far as to suggest that they may have tried to get in via ssh.
See http://online.securityfocus.com/bid/5093

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I think vanilla 3.1 is vulnerable to this.

Also see http://blow.packetfu.org:1337/hnd.html

Bruno Received on Mon Nov 11 18:10:18 2002