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Posted Jul 7, 2009 18:30 UTC (Tue) by ncm (subscriber, #165)
Parent article: RUMOR: OpenSSH exploit

If I had discovered an exploit that only worked on new releases of OpenSSH, I might want to start such a rumor so my targets might make themselves vulnerable by installing such a release.


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Posted Jul 7, 2009 18:32 UTC (Tue) by ESRI (guest, #52806) [Link]

Alternately, if you discovered an exploit that worked only on an older version of OpenSSH, you might want to suggest what you just did so that we'd avoid installing a newer release and instead stick to the older, vulnerable version.

We're onto you!!

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Posted Jul 7, 2009 20:50 UTC (Tue) by drfickle (guest, #1093) [Link]

Inconceivable!

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Posted Jul 8, 2009 7:34 UTC (Wed) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]

This is heavy. :-)

The question is ...

Posted Jul 8, 2009 21:39 UTC (Wed) by kmself (subscriber, #11565) [Link]

... are you the kind of cracker who'd put the exploit in the version in
front of you, or the version in front of me?

Now ... where was I?

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Posted Jul 8, 2009 1:05 UTC (Wed) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link]

Ah, but then who started the rumor, and why?

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