[Full-Disclosure] SSH Exploit Request

Bryan Allen bda at mirrorshades.net
Sat Nov 15 12:01:09 GMT 2003


On Nov 14, 2003, at 9:10 PM, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> You install a borked build of ssh (shared lib dependencies are FUN),
> restart it, your session goes bye-bye, and you can't get back in to
> fix the runaway sshd that's chewing all the resources....

Restarting sshd does not kill running ssh sessions, as they're all 
forked and in memory.
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