Re: Someone hacking into our system.

["John D. Hardin" <jhardin wolfenet com>]

On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:

> Next, upgrade your version of SSH to one that isn't vulnerable to buffer
> overflows, change your passwords, and make sure that SSH is compiled to
> run from inetd. It's much slower that way, but by limiting SSH sessions to
> systems defined only in your hosts.allow file will add a further layer of
> protection for you.

Suggestion: apply Solar Designer's stack-no-exec patch, and recompile
your SSH daemon using StackGuard from http://www.immunix.org/

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