Re: SSH bruteforce on its way...

Michael Lang <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.incidents
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 08:29 +0200, Lionel Ferette wrote:
> Hello Michael,
> 

Hello Lionel,

> In the wise words of [email protected], on Tuesday 25 October 2005 
> 09:29:
> [SNIP]
> > I've put the session data on a website
> > (http://www.jackal-net.at/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=20)  where you can
> > see what i've setup and what the guys where doing. (currently only one
> > session is online but i'm sure, others will follow :) ... )   
> Just had a look at that page, and I would recommend against using ethereal to 
> capture traffic: there are too many vulnerabilities in ethereal's decoders (a 
> few have been disclosed last week) to allow that program to run unattended as 
> root (needed to capture traffic). Instead, I always recommend to use tcpdump:
>  tcpdump -s 1500 -w traffic.trace port 22
> (in your case you're only interested in ssh traffic, aren't you? otherwise, 
> just skip the 'port 22' part).
> 
> Then, *as a normal user*, open the trace file with ethereal if you don't like 
> tcpdump's output of
>  tcpdump -s 1500 -r traffic.trace -X

i´m running ethereal on a Host *outside* of the Machine which runs
Fedora Core4 Ethereal version ethereal-0.10.13-1.FC4.2 which should be
aware of all currently known issues.
thanks anyway 

Kind regards
Michael Lang

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Lionel
> 
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Michael Lang <[email protected]>
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