OpenSSH 5.9 has just been released. It will be available from the
mirrors listed at http://www.openssh.com/ shortly.
OpenSSH is a 100% complete SSH protocol version 1.3, 1.5 and 2.0
implementation and includes sftp client and server support.
Once again, we would like to thank the OpenSSH community for their
continued support of the project, especially those who contributed
code or patches, reported bugs, tested snapshots or donated to the
project. More information on donations may be found at:
http://www.openssh.com/donations.html
Changes since OpenSSH 5.8
========================
Features:
* Introduce sandboxing of the pre-auth privsep child using an optional
sshd_config(5) "UsePrivilegeSeparation=sandbox" mode that enables
mandatory restrictions on the syscalls the privsep child can perform.
This intention is to prevent a compromised privsep child from being
used to attack other hosts (by opening sockets and proxying) or
probing local kernel attack surface.
Three concrete sandbox implementation are provided (selected at
configure time): systrace, seatbelt and rlimit.
The systrace sandbox uses systrace(4) in unsupervised "fast-path"
mode, where a list of permitted syscalls is supplied. Any syscall not
on the list results in SIGKILL being sent to the privsep child. Note
that this requires a kernel with the new SYSTR_POLICY_KILL option
(only OpenBSD has this mode at present).
The seatbelt sandbox uses OS X/Darwin sandbox(7) facilities with a
strict (kSBXProfilePureComputation) policy that disables access to
filesystem and network resources.
The rlimit sandbox is a fallback choice for platforms that don't
support a better one; it uses setrlimit() to reset the hard-limit
of file descriptors and processes to zero, which should prevent
the privsep child from forking or opening new network connections.
Sandboxing of the privilege separated child process is currently
experimental but should become the default in a future release.
Native sandboxes for other platforms are welcome (e.g. Capsicum,
Linux pid/net namespaces, etc.)
* Add new SHA256-based HMAC transport integrity modes from
http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-dbider-sha2-mac-for-ssh-02.txt
These modes are hmac-sha2-256, hmac-sha2-256-96, hmac-sha2-512,
and hmac-sha2-512-96, and are available by default in ssh(1) and
sshd(8)
* The pre-authentication sshd(8) privilege separation slave process
now logs via a socket shared with the master process, avoiding the
need to maintain /dev/log inside the chroot.
* ssh(1) now warns when a server refuses X11 forwarding
* sshd_config(5)'s AuthorizedKeysFile now accepts multiple paths,
separated by whitespace. The undocumented AuthorizedKeysFile2
option is deprecated (though the default for AuthorizedKeysFile
includes .ssh/authorized_keys2)
* sshd_config(5): similarly deprecate UserKnownHostsFile2 and
GlobalKnownHostsFile2 by making UserKnownHostsFile and
GlobalKnownHostsFile accept multiple options and default to
include known_hosts2
* Retain key comments when loading v.2 keys. These will be visible
in "ssh-add -l" and other places. bz#439
* ssh(1) and sshd(8): set IPv6 traffic class from IPQoS (as well as
IPv4 ToS/DSCP). bz#1855
* ssh_config(5)'s ControlPath option now expands %L to the host
portion of the destination host name.
* ssh_config(5) "Host" options now support negated Host matching,
e.g.
Host *.example.org !c.example.org
User mekmitasdigoat
Will match "a.example.org", "b.example.org", but not
"c.example.org"
* ssh_config(5): a new RequestTTY option provides control over when a
TTY is requested for a connection, similar to the existing -t/-tt/-T
ssh(1) commandline options.
* sshd(8): allow GSSAPI authentication to detect when a server-side
failure causes authentication failure and don't count such failures
against MaxAuthTries; bz#1244
* ssh-keygen(1): Add -A option. For each of the key types (rsa1, rsa,
dsa and ecdsa) for which host keys do not exist, generate the host
keys with the default key file path, an empty passphrase, default
bits for the key type, and default comment. This is useful for
system initialisation scripts.
* ssh(1): Allow graceful shutdown of multiplexing: request that a mux
server removes its listener socket and refuse future multiplexing
requests but don't kill existing connections. This may be requested
using "ssh -O stop ..."
* ssh-add(1) now accepts keys piped from standard input. E.g.
"ssh-add - < /path/to/key"
* ssh-keysign(8) now signs hostbased authentication
challenges correctly using ECDSA keys; bz#1858
* sftp(1): document that sftp accepts square brackets to delimit
addresses (useful for IPv6); bz#1847a
* ssh(1): when using session multiplexing, the master process will
change its process title to reflect the control path in use and
when a ControlPersist-ed master is waiting to close; bz#1883 and
bz#1911
* Other minor bugs fixed: 1849 1861 1862 1869 1875 1878 1879 1892
1900 1905 1913
Portable OpenSSH Bugfixes:
* Fix a compilation error in the SELinux support code. bz#1851
* This release removes support for ssh-rand-helper. OpenSSH now
obtains its random numbers directly from OpenSSL or from
a PRNGd/EGD instance specified at configure time.
* sshd(8) now resets the SELinux process execution context before
executing passwd for password changes; bz#1891
* Since gcc >= 4.x ignores all -Wno-options options, test only the
corresponding -W-option when trying to determine whether it is
accepted; bz#1901
* Add ECDSA key generation to the Cygwin ssh-{host,user}-config
scripts.
* Updated .spec and init files for Linux; bz#1920
* Improved SELinux error messages in context change failures and
suppress error messages when attempting to change from the
"unconfined_t" type; bz#1924 bz#1919
* Fix build errors on platforms without dlopen(); bz#1929
Checksums:
=========
- SHA1 (openssh-5.9.tar.gz) = bc0cb728bbc394769f9a2ce5b8cd99dc41e12632
- SHA1 (openssh-5.9p1.tar.gz) = be8878869bb80ce12ca79282768ffa73cc3f05fc
Reporting Bugs:
==============
- Please read http://www.openssh.com/report.html
Security bugs should be reported directly to openssh at openssh.com
OpenSSH is brought to you by Markus Friedl, Niels Provos, Theo de Raadt,
Kevin Steves, Damien Miller, Darren Tucker, Jason McIntyre, Tim Rice and
Ben Lindstrom.
OpenSSH 5.9 has just been released. It will be available from the
mirrors listed at http://www.openssh.com/ shortly.
OpenSSH is a 100% complete SSH protocol version 1.3, 1.5 and 2.0
implementation and includes sftp client and server support.
Once again, we would like to thank the OpenSSH community for their
continued support of the project, especially those who contributed
code or patches, reported bugs, tested snapshots or donated to the
project. More information on donations may be found at:
http://www.openssh.com/donations.html
Changes since OpenSSH 5.8
========================
Features:
* Introduce sandboxing of the pre-auth privsep child using an optional
sshd_config(5) "UsePrivilegeSeparation=sandbox" mode that enables
mandatory restrictions on the syscalls the privsep child can perform.
This intention is to prevent a compromised privsep child from being
used to attack other hosts (by opening sockets and proxying) or
probing local kernel attack surface.
Three concrete sandbox implementation are provided (selected at
configure time): systrace, seatbelt and rlimit.
The systrace sandbox uses systrace(4) in unsupervised "fast-path"
mode, where a list of permitted syscalls is supplied. Any syscall not
on the list results in SIGKILL being sent to the privsep child. Note
that this requires a kernel with the new SYSTR_POLICY_KILL option
(only OpenBSD has this mode at present).
The seatbelt sandbox uses OS X/Darwin sandbox(7) facilities with a
strict (kSBXProfilePureComputation) policy that disables access to
filesystem and network resources.
The rlimit sandbox is a fallback choice for platforms that don't
support a better one; it uses setrlimit() to reset the hard-limit
of file descriptors and processes to zero, which should prevent
the privsep child from forking or opening new network connections.
Sandboxing of the privilege separated child process is currently
experimental but should become the default in a future release.
Native sandboxes for other platforms are welcome (e.g. Capsicum,
Linux pid/net namespaces, etc.)
* Add new SHA256-based HMAC transport integrity modes from
http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-dbider-sha2-mac-for-ssh-02.txt
These modes are hmac-sha2-256, hmac-sha2-256-96, hmac-sha2-512,
and hmac-sha2-512-96, and are available by default in ssh(1) and
sshd(8)
* The pre-authentication sshd(8) privilege separation slave process
now logs via a socket shared with the master process, avoiding the
need to maintain /dev/log inside the chroot.
* ssh(1) now warns when a server refuses X11 forwarding
* sshd_config(5)'s AuthorizedKeysFile now accepts multiple paths,
separated by whitespace. The undocumented AuthorizedKeysFile2
option is deprecated (though the default for AuthorizedKeysFile
includes .ssh/authorized_keys2)
* sshd_config(5): similarly deprecate UserKnownHostsFile2 and
GlobalKnownHostsFile2 by making UserKnownHostsFile and
GlobalKnownHostsFile accept multiple options and default to
include known_hosts2
* Retain key comments when loading v.2 keys. These will be visible
in "ssh-add -l" and other places. bz#439
* ssh(1) and sshd(8): set IPv6 traffic class from IPQoS (as well as
IPv4 ToS/DSCP). bz#1855
* ssh_config(5)'s ControlPath option now expands %L to the host
portion of the destination host name.
* ssh_config(5) "Host" options now support negated Host matching,
e.g.
Host *.example.org !c.example.org
User mekmitasdigoat
Will match "a.example.org", "b.example.org", but not
"c.example.org"
* ssh_config(5): a new RequestTTY option provides control over when a
TTY is requested for a connection, similar to the existing -t/-tt/-T
ssh(1) commandline options.
* sshd(8): allow GSSAPI authentication to detect when a server-side
failure causes authentication failure and don't count such failures
against MaxAuthTries; bz#1244
* ssh-keygen(1): Add -A option. For each of the key types (rsa1, rsa,
dsa and ecdsa) for which host keys do not exist, generate the host
keys with the default key file path, an empty passphrase, default
bits for the key type, and default comment. This is useful for
system initialisation scripts.
* ssh(1): Allow graceful shutdown of multiplexing: request that a mux
server removes its listener socket and refuse future multiplexing
requests but don't kill existing connections. This may be requested
using "ssh -O stop ..."
* ssh-add(1) now accepts keys piped from standard input. E.g.
"ssh-add - < /path/to/key"
* ssh-keysign(8) now signs hostbased authentication
challenges correctly using ECDSA keys; bz#1858
* sftp(1): document that sftp accepts square brackets to delimit
addresses (useful for IPv6); bz#1847a
* ssh(1): when using session multiplexing, the master process will
change its process title to reflect the control path in use and
when a ControlPersist-ed master is waiting to close; bz#1883 and
bz#1911
* Other minor bugs fixed: 1849 1861 1862 1869 1875 1878 1879 1892
1900 1905 1913
Portable OpenSSH Bugfixes:
* Fix a compilation error in the SELinux support code. bz#1851
* This release removes support for ssh-rand-helper. OpenSSH now
obtains its random numbers directly from OpenSSL or from
a PRNGd/EGD instance specified at configure time.
* sshd(8) now resets the SELinux process execution context before
executing passwd for password changes; bz#1891
* Since gcc >= 4.x ignores all -Wno-options options, test only the
corresponding -W-option when trying to determine whether it is
accepted; bz#1901
* Add ECDSA key generation to the Cygwin ssh-{host,user}-config
scripts.
* Updated .spec and init files for Linux; bz#1920
* Improved SELinux error messages in context change failures and
suppress error messages when attempting to change from the
"unconfined_t" type; bz#1924 bz#1919
* Fix build errors on platforms without dlopen(); bz#1929
Checksums:
=========
- SHA1 (openssh-5.9.tar.gz) = bc0cb728bbc394769f9a2ce5b8cd99dc41e12632
- SHA1 (openssh-5.9p1.tar.gz) = be8878869bb80ce12ca79282768ffa73cc3f05fc
Reporting Bugs:
==============
- Please read http://www.openssh.com/report.html
Security bugs should be reported directly to openssh at openssh.com
OpenSSH is brought to you by Markus Friedl, Niels Provos, Theo de Raadt,
Kevin Steves, Damien Miller, Darren Tucker, Jason McIntyre, Tim Rice and
Ben Lindstrom.
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