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Update OpenSSH from 7.4p1 to 7.5p1 #474

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@pmenzel pmenzel commented Sep 4, 2017

After the update, the running OpenSSH daemon can be restarted with sudo systemctl restart sshd.service.

Tested with keineahnung.

SSL has been set up, so use it to securely download the source archive
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Release notes are available online [1].

> […]
>
> Changes since OpenSSH 7.4
> =========================
>
> This is a bugfix release.
>
> Security
> --------
>
>  * ssh(1), sshd(8): Fix weakness in CBC padding oracle countermeasures
>    that allowed a variant of the attack fixed in OpenSSH 7.3 to proceed.
>    Note that the OpenSSH client disables CBC ciphers by default, sshd
>    offers them as lowest-preference options and will remove them by
>    default entriely in the next release. Reported by Jean Paul
>    Degabriele, Kenny Paterson, Martin Albrecht and Torben Hansen of
>    Royal Holloway, University of London.
>
>  * sftp-client(1): [portable OpenSSH only] On Cygwin, a client making
>    a recursive file transfer could be maniuplated by a hostile server to
>    perform a path-traversal attack. creating or modifying files outside
>    of the intended target directory. Reported by Jann Horn of Google
>    Project Zero.
>
> New Features
> ------------
>
>  * ssh(1), sshd(8): Support "=-" syntax to easily remove methods from
>    algorithm lists, e.g. Ciphers=-*cbc. bz#2671
>
> […]

[1] https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-7.5
@pmenzel pmenzel force-pushed the update-openssh-from-7.4p1-to-7.5p1 branch from f7c3350 to fff7ba2 Compare September 4, 2017 13:40
@donald donald merged commit 31c1645 into master Sep 7, 2017
@donald donald deleted the update-openssh-from-7.4p1-to-7.5p1 branch September 20, 2017 06:08
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