A vulnerability has been identified in LSH, which could be exploited by local attackers to cause a denial of service or disclose sensitive information. This flaw is due to an error in lshd that leaks the file descriptors of the random generator's seed-file to user shells started by lshd, which could be exploited by malicious users to gain knowledge of sensitive information or cause a denial of service by truncating the server's seed-file.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Stefan Pfetzing
ChangeLog
2006-01-23 : Initial release
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