Re: Some revelations about ssh and stackpatch

From: Pavel Kankovsky (peakat_private)
Date: Tue Nov 03 1998 - 13:13:15 PST

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On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, M.C.Mar wrote:

> execl("/path_to_sshd/sshd","AAAAAA....[about 2000]",0);
> 'Cos I have stackpatch applied I saw something very strange in my
> logs:
> Nov  2 16:29:52 emsi <BUFFER OVERRUN ATTEMPT>[21738]: log: Server listening on port 22.
> Nov  2 16:29:52 emsi <BUFFER OVERRUN ATTEMPT>[21738]: log: Generating 768 bit RSA key.
> Nov  2 16:29:53 emsi <BUFFER OVERRUN ATTEMPT>[21738]: log: RSA key generation complete.

"<BUFFER OVERRUN ATTEMPT>" means that syslog() in (Linux) libc does not
like your argv[0], this is not a feature or bug or anything of sshd

--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak  [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"You can't be truly paranoid unless you're sure they have already got you."

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