service version disclosure

Emmanuel Seyman emmanuel.seyman at club-internet.fr
Sat Jan 7 07:52:01 UTC 2012


* Reindl Harald [07/01/2012 08:37] :
>
> however - why do we spit the current running versions to everyone?

In the case of openssh, it's to allow the client to work around known bugs
in the server. In other cases, it's simply of case of not wanting to patch
gratuitously packages.

Emmanuel


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