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There is no upstream fix, and the upstream author has no intention of fixing the problem, or in continuing to maintain the software, as noted in the vulnerability report. I think that, unless we want to invest in finding an appropriate fix and maintaining this ourselves, we should remove rssh from Fedora and EPEL, due to upstream's disinterest in maintaining it.
Appears a patch was created based on mailing list? On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:46:04AM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 12:24:52PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > > Henrik Erkkonen has discovered that, through clever manipulation of > > environment variables on the ssh command line, it is possible to > > circumvent rssh. As far as I can tell, there is no way to effect a > > root compromise, except of course if the root account is the one > > you're attempting to protect with rssh... > > > > This project is old, and I have no interest in continuing to > > maintain it. > > Actually, I have a patch for this. I'll be publishing it later this > week, when I can find some time to do it. I haven't had the time to work up a proper release for this issue, but I do have a patch, which is attatched. Hopefully I'll get some time to do a release this weekend. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D
Any progress with updating EPEL packages?
rssh-2.3.4-1.el6 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 6. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/rssh-2.3.4-1.el6
rssh-2.3.4-1.el5 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 5. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/rssh-2.3.4-1.el5
Package rssh-2.3.4-1.el6: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=epel-testing rssh-2.3.4-1.el6' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2014-3024/rssh-2.3.4-1.el6 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
rssh-2.3.4-1.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
rssh-2.3.4-1.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.