Dude not that I know of, I asked around, and bio, said crt32 I think it was
takes a while to break it, but he didn't know if it was a worm... Only
problem when asking questions when everyone is work, noone is about.

iron saTan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin McKinnon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 1:51 PM
Subject: [scottish] SSH worm?


> Hi,
>
> Am I the only one to be seeing lots of hits on my ssh ports from Linux
> boxes? I got absolutely hammered by a machine belonging to an ISP
yesterday
> - 50+ hits/second - so much so that I re-wrote my guard-bot. They seem to
> have unplugged the box since I phoned them - they promised to call back
but
> never have done.
>
> Since then I've been seeing intermittent hits (but no bursts). I saw the
> warning re ssh vulnerabilities but I though this only affected which hosts
> users connected from (surely nobody would only use the IP address/host key
> as authentication?). I suppose this would still allow someone to mount a
> dictionary attack where password authentication was enabled.
>
> ....or am I missing something?
>
> If there's any SSH/security gurus out there....if I've compiled against
the
> tcp-wrappers library does this bug affect access controls implemented with
> hosts.allow/deny or is it just in the
>
> Colin
>
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