SSH Under Attack: How to Protect Yourself from Malicious Attempts to Crash Your Client
An attempt to crash the client making a SSH request has been discussed on social media recently. The user behind this idea worked on a ‘reverse’ exploit where the response from the SSH server was morphed with large malformed packets in an attempt to slow down the client. This would ultimately lead to the client crashing. The user evaluated the attacks and time-stamped the requests to evaluate the speed each attack from the same IP address occurred. The return payload was then morphed and three responses were selected. After 100 variants were chosen, the user started over and selected the best three.