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CVE-1999-0787 is a local privilege escalation issue in SSH for Unix involving the SSH authentication agent (ssh-agent) following symbolic links when interacting with a UNIX domain socket. By leveraging symlink following via the agent’s UNIX domain socket and improper permission/ownership checking, a local attacker can cause ssh-agent/SSH to associate with or use an attacker-controlled socket/path, enabling the attacker to establish SSH sessions as another local user without authenticating as that user.
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chmod u-s /usr/local/bin/ssh). This prevents the attack but also disables rhosts-RSA authentication.Patch, then assume compromise.
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