Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 14:12:47 -0700
From: Darren J Moffat <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], [email protected]Subject: Sun statement on the OpenSSH Remote Challenge Vulnerability
An official Security bulletin with be released very soon but the
following is an interim statement since we have received a number of
enquiries.
The version of OpenSSH that is in Solaris 9 is not beleived to be
vulnerable if the default configuration is used. If sshd_config(4)
has been updated so that BOTH of the following entries are present
then it is vulnerable.
PAMAuthenticationViaKBDInt yes
KbdInteractiveAuthentication yes
Note that in the default sshd_config(4) PAMAuthenticationViaKBDInt is
listed but KbdInteractiveAuthentication is not (the compiled in default
for KbdInteractiveAuthentication is no).
Sun is in the process of producing a patch for Solaris 9. Older Solaris
releases are not vulernable since they do not include OpenSSH as part of
the Solaris distribution - hosts that added OpenSSH as part of their own
site configurations should check the official OpenSSH advisory for details.
The patch that Sun produces to fix this issue will not contain the new
OpenSSH Privsep support as it is not yet stable enough on Solaris due to
interactions with PAM and BSM auditing, this may appear in a future
release - Sun is working with the OpenSSH devlopers on the PAM problems
and once a working OpenSSH with PAM and BSM is available we will
re-evaluate our position on Privsep.
--
Darren J Moffat
