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Gentoo: GLSA-200412-01 Normal: rssh Unrestricted Command Execution

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Calendar Grey December 3, 2004
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Gentoo Advisory GLSA 202301-02: Vulnerability in system call handling permits evasion of security mechanisms.
rssh and scponly do not filter command-line options that can be exploited to execute any command, thereby allowing a remote user to completely bypass the restricted shell

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200412-01 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: rssh, scponly: Unrestricted command execution Date: December 03, 2004 Bugs: #72815, #72816 ID: 200412-01

Synopsis ======= rssh and scponly do not filter command-line options that can be exploited to execute any command, thereby allowing a remote user to completely bypass the restricted shell.
Background ========= rssh and scponly are two restricted shells, allowing only a few predefined commands. They are often used as a complement to OpenSSH to provide access to remote users without providing any remote execution privileges.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-misc/scpon...

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