Bug#412899: CVE-2007-1099: dropbear dbclient insufficient warning on hostkey mismatch

2007-03-05 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 04:22:53PM +, Gerrit Pape wrote: On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 01:27:04AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 08:55:21AM +, Gerrit Pape wrote: I would like to see this fixed in etch (and sarge), and now realize that uploading the new upstream

Bug#412899: CVE-2007-1099: dropbear dbclient insufficient warning on hostkey mismatch

2007-03-04 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 08:46:28PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: The description of this bug in the upstream changelog is: - Security: dbclient previously would prompt to confirm a mismatching hostkey but wouldn't warn loudly. It will now exit upon a mismatch. Why should it didn't

Bug#412899: CVE-2007-1099: dropbear dbclient insufficient warning on hostkey mismatch

2007-03-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 08:55:21AM +, Gerrit Pape wrote: On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 08:46:28PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: The description of this bug in the upstream changelog is: - Security: dbclient previously would prompt to confirm a mismatching hostkey but wouldn't warn loudly.

Bug#412899: CVE-2007-1099: dropbear dbclient insufficient warning on hostkey mismatch

2007-03-04 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 01:27:04AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 08:55:21AM +, Gerrit Pape wrote: I would like to see this fixed in etch (and sarge), and now realize that uploading the new upstream version wasn't the right thing. Do you agree with an upload of

Bug#412899: CVE-2007-1099: dropbear dbclient insufficient warning on hostkey mismatch

2007-03-03 Thread Steve Langasek
The description of this bug in the upstream changelog is: - Security: dbclient previously would prompt to confirm a mismatching hostkey but wouldn't warn loudly. It will now exit upon a mismatch. Why should it didn't warn loudly be a grave security bug? Isn't any sort of prompt already a

Bug#412899: CVE-2007-1099: dropbear dbclient insufficient warning on hostkey mismatch

2007-02-28 Thread Stefan Fritsch
Package: dropbear Severity: grave Tags: security Justification: user security hole From CVE-2007-1099: dbclient in Dropbear SSH client before 0.49 does not sufficiently warn the user when it detects a hostkey mismatch, which might allow remote attackers to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks. This

Bug#412899: CVE-2007-1099: dropbear dbclient insufficient warning on hostkey mismatch

2007-02-28 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 08:59:47PM +0100, Stefan Fritsch wrote: From CVE-2007-1099: dbclient in Dropbear SSH client before 0.49 does not sufficiently warn the user when it detects a hostkey mismatch, which might allow remote attackers to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks. This is fixed in