As some may have gathered, the advisory recently posted by mmhs@hushmail.com was indeed a fake, intended to highlight several unclear statements made in GIS2002062801. The advisory in question is currently being updated with more detailed information and will be re-posted at: http://www.globalintersec.com/adv/openssh-2002062801.txt as soon as it becomes available. Note that the kbd-init flaw described in GIS2002062801 was proven to be exploitable in our lab although not all evidence to demonstrate this was provided in the original advisory. A mistake was made in the original advisory draft, where chunk content data was shown, rather than the entire corrupted malloc chunk. This will be amended in the revision. Also note that to our knowledge there are currently no known, exploitable flaws in OpenSSH 3.5p1, due to its use of PAM as suggested by mmhs@hushmail.com. It is almost certain that the posted bogus advisory was also intended to cause alarm amongst communities using OpenSSH, through miss-information. Global InterSec LLC.
