New OpenSSH Vulnerability

It’s a bad one, and it’s been in the code for a decade:

A newly disclosed flaw involving OpenSSH and musl, dubbed “*sshole,” allows attackers to log in to certain Alpine Linux and other musl-based Linux accounts configured to block password authentication simply by entering an oversized password.

“Oversized” means longer than 256 bytes. Details.

Slashdot thread. And another news article.

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