On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Marc Goldberg
<email@hidden> wrote:
> If you're able to reliably reproduce, try ssh -vvv hostname to get debug
> messages... see if there are any interesting messages that give a clue as to
> the source of the problem...
The cause of the problem is already known: Apple screwed up in both
sshd and Terminal.app with respect to opening and closing virtual
terminals (the openpty(3) function). It's currently being tracked as
rdar://5685756, according to this page:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1277952&tstart=0
The problem I have is that this is such a basic DoS vector that to not
have fixed it already is unthinkable. Any attempt to ssh into a
vulnerable machine can trigger this behavior.
--Kyle Sluder
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