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authorDarren Tucker <dtucker@zip.com.au>2016-07-15 13:49:44 +1000
committerDarren Tucker <dtucker@zip.com.au>2016-07-15 13:49:44 +1000
commit283b97ff33ea2c641161950849931bd578de6946 (patch)
tree2f8127f4ca0bd727252c860e105ad1140ce54b6b /msg.h
parent9286875a73b2de7736b5e50692739d314cd8d9dc (diff)
Mitigate timing of disallowed users PAM logins.
When sshd decides to not allow a login (eg PermitRootLogin=no) and it's using PAM, it sends a fake password to PAM so that the timing for the failure is not noticeably different whether or not the password is correct. This behaviour can be detected by sending a very long password string which is slower to hash than the fake password. Mitigate by constructing an invalid password that is the same length as the one from the client and thus takes the same time to hash. Diff from djm@
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