New ssh Exploit in the Wild

veg writes "In the last few hours there have been several reports of a new ssh bug, with an exploit seemingly in the wild. Oh god not again... The lengths some people will goto to try and damage Theo's pride." Update: 09/17 00:24 GMT by T : friscolr writes "Hot on the heels of rev 1 of the buffer.adv advisory, here is revision 2, which fixes more than revision 1 did. Also see the 3.7.1 release notes."

Comments

Re:See this comment for BSD patch and info

[NateTech]

Yeah right... we're all going to install binaries from some jackass we only have an AIM account for.

What are you, new?

Re:Suggestions for a newbie?

[Overly Critical Guy]

With the report last week of Linux being the most-breached operating system, I find this new vulnerability highly amusing.

I know I'll get modded down for this, but I want to say it anyway. People overbash Windows and underbash Linux. There is a double standard, where the "latest Microsoft hole" is this big deal, a statement of how Windows shouldn't be used by anyone, of how evil and terrible and inadequate Microsoft is. Any sort of Linux hole is just a patch to be swept under the rug and forgotten.

Re:Suggestions for a newbie?

[stonecypher]

I love how this guy completely ignores the original poster's question, instead making asumpions about his skill, makes a few snide comments, tells him to get rid of a legitimate tool instead of how to patch it like the guy wanted, and still gets modded +4 informative.

I'd answer, 'xcept I'm not a Linux user, so I don't actually know.