New OpenSSH Vulnerability

SSchneier on Security · 55 minutes ago

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.