Re: Security problem with ssh

[Andersson, Mats]

On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Arno Hahma wrote:
> ssh-agents, too. When one of those quits, the sniffer starts
> malloc():ing like crazy in a hope to claim the memory area used by the
> just recently terminated ssh-process. If the kernel didn't clean up the

Could have been true but as far as I can remember all critical areas of
memory are cleared (a bit paranoically, but good for subtle
compromise-attempts like these :-) directly after they are not longer
needed. So no worries I think.

Cheers,

/Mats