SSH host key authentication can be bypassed when DNS is used to resolve localhost

Overview This vulnerability allows an attacker to redirect an SSH connection to an arbitary host. Description When making connections to localhost, SSH disables host key checking to provide compatibility with NFS filesystems. As a result, if the victim's machine uses a poisoned DNS server to...

Vulnerabilities in PuTTY and PSCP

Advisory ID Internal CORE-2004-0705 Bugtraq ID: 10850, 10870 CVE Name: None currently assigned. Title: Vulnerabilities in PuTTY and PSCP Class: Boundary Error Condition Remotely Exploitable: Yes Locally Exploitable: No Vendors contacted: - Maintainers of PuTTY . Core notification: 2004-07-28...