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Re: [Full-disclosure] PuTTY private key passphrase stealing attack
- To: full-disclosure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, joachim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] PuTTY private key passphrase stealing attack
- From: paul.szabo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 05:58:48 +1000
> ... someone with access to a single account could use this to
> gain the password for that account, and hence possibly sudo access.
Oh yes, someone with access to an account has... access to that.
If he wanted sudo, then just have a fake sudo: one that traps the
password and runs the real sudo after; or one that runs the real
sudo but prepending the "bad" command.
Cheers, Paul
Paul Szabo psz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia
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