On 08/07/2009, Flaherty, Patrick pflaherty@wsi.com wrote:
is there a security issue on CentOS 5.3 with openssh 4.3? I ask that cause of http://www.h-online.com/security/Rumours-of-critical-vulnerabi lity-in-OpenSSH-in-Red-Hat-Enterprise-Linux--/news/113712 and http://secer.org/hacktools/0day-openssh-remote-exploit.html.
this from sans
http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=6760
another good reason for using pki rather than password auth so no magic 0day just another brute force tool
mike