[Tfug] Debian SSH vulnerability
Jeff Breadner
jeff at breadner.net
Tue May 13 19:34:29 MST 2008
John Gruenenfelder wrote:
> However, my understanding is also that you (and your systems) are only
> affected by this vulnerabilty is your keys were created *after* the package
> maintainer broke the random number generation and, obviously, before the
> bugfix was released.
>
On my system (kubuntu 8.04), when I applied the latest updates, a new
utility 'ssh-vulnkey' was installed. You can use this to identify which
keys are vulnerable to this attack vector, and which are OK.
cheers
Jeff
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