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Re: Kerberos security vulnerability in SSH-1.2.27

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dug Song)
Thu Jul 6 14:25:58 2000

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Reply-To: Dug Song <dugsong@MONKEY.ORG>
From: Dug Song <dugsong@MONKEY.ORG>
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On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Carson Gaspar wrote:

> <sigh> I patched kerberos support in a previous SSH 1.2.x release, but it
> never made it back into the source. The whole ticket handling disaster
> should be ripped out and re-done. Assuming KRB5CCNAME contains "FILE:blah"
> and unlinking whatever is after FILE: is _very_ _bad_.

this broken behaviour was never in the Kerberos v4/AFS patch upon which
the Kerberos v5 support in ssh-1.2.x was based, nor was it ever in the
Kerberos v4 support in OpenSSH...

-d.

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