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ssh in 5.2

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Nygren)
Tue Feb 2 23:37:23 1999

To: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 23:37:09 EST
From: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>


RedHat Linux-Athena 5.2 is still using ssh 1.2.23 for
/usr/athena/bin/ssh*.  How hard would it be to merge in the latest
1.2.* version?  (Am I right in remembering somewhere that there are
some holes/weaknesses in 1.2.23?  A thread on net-defense seems to
imply that at least one variant of the kerberos support in ssh 
prior to 1.2.26 has some buffer-overruns.  Is this a problem for us?

	Erik


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