[lug] Ancient RH box hacked, which packages must be updated?

Bear Giles bgiles at coyotesong.com
Fri Mar 26 10:49:24 MST 2004


Lee Woodworth wrote:
> I know that 2 years ago a secondary-DNS server in Golden was 
> hacked. The box was running RH6 with an old SSH. The hack was 
> thgough SSH. IIRC there was some weakness in version 1 of the 
> protocol and the RH6 sshd only supported version 1.

We don't know how the guy is getting in, only that it's not 
through one of the services we've already shut down.  I thought we 
had updated ssh to 3.6 a while back, but it seems to still be 
running 3.5.



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