OpenSSH 6.7 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 6.6
=========================
Potentially-incompatible changes
* sshd(8): The default set of ciphers and MACs has been altered to
remove unsafe algorithms. In particular, CBC ciphers and arcfour*
are disabled by default.
The full set of algorithms remains available if configured
explicitly via the Ciphers and MACs sshd_config options.
* sshd(8): Support for tcpwrappers/libwrap has been removed.
* OpenSSH 6.5 and 6.6 have a bug that causes ~0.2% of connections
using the curve25519-sha256@libssh.org KEX exchange method to fail
when connecting with something that implements the specification
correctly. OpenSSH 6.7 disables this KEX method when speaking to
one of the affected versions.
New Features
* Major internal refactoring to begin to make part of OpenSSH usable
as a library. So far the wire parsing, key handling and KRL code
has been refactored. Please note that we do not consider the API
stable yet, nor do we offer the library in separable form.
* ssh(1), sshd(8): Add support for Unix domain socket forwarding.
A remote TCP port may be forwarded to a local Unix domain socket
and vice versa or both ends may be a Unix domain socket.
* ssh(1), ssh-keygen(1): Add support for SSHFP DNS records for
ED25519 key types.
* sftp(1): Allow resumption of interrupted uploads.
* ssh(1): When rekeying, skip file/DNS lookups of the hostkey if it
is the same as the one sent during initial key exchange; bz#2154
* sshd(8): Allow explicit ::1 and 127.0.0.1 forwarding bind
addresses when GatewayPorts=no; allows client to choose address
family; bz#2222
* sshd(8): Add a sshd_config PermitUserRC option to control whether
~/.ssh/rc is executed, mirroring the no-user-rc authorized_keys
option; bz#2160
* ssh(1): Add a %C escape sequence for LocalCommand and ControlPath
that expands to a unique identifer based on a hash of the tuple of
(local host, remote user, hostname, port). Helps avoid exceeding
miserly pathname limits for Unix domain sockets in multiplexing
control paths; bz#2220
* sshd(8): Make the "Too many authentication failures" message
include the user, source address, port and protocol in a format
similar to the authentication success / failure messages; bz#2199
* Added unit and fuzz tests for refactored code. These are run
automatically in portable OpenSSH via the "make tests" target.
Bugfixes
* sshd(8): Fix remote forwarding with the same listen port but
different listen address.
* ssh(1): Fix inverted test that caused PKCS#11 keys that were
explicitly listed in ssh_config or on the commandline not to be
preferred.
* ssh-keygen(1): Fix bug in KRL generation: multiple consecutive
revoked certificate serial number ranges could be serialised to an
invalid format. Readers of a broken KRL caused by this bug will
fail closed, so no should-have-been-revoked key will be accepted.
* ssh(1): Reflect stdio-forward ("ssh -W host:port ...") failures in
exit status. Previously we were always returning 0; bz#2255
* ssh(1), ssh-keygen(1): Make Ed25519 keys' title fit properly in the
randomart border; bz#2247
* ssh-agent(1): Only cleanup agent socket in the main agent process
and not in any subprocesses it may have started (e.g. forked
askpass). Fixes agent sockets being zapped when askpass processes
fatal(); bz#2236
* ssh-add(1): Make stdout line-buffered; saves partial output getting
lost when ssh-add fatal()s part-way through (e.g. when listing keys
from an agent that supports key types that ssh-add doesn't);
bz#2234
* ssh-keygen(1): When hashing or removing hosts, don't choke on
@revoked markers and don't remove @cert-authority markers; bz#2241
* ssh(1): Don't fatal when hostname canonicalisation fails and a
ProxyCommand is in use; continue and allow the ProxyCommand to
connect anyway (e.g. to a host with a name outside the DNS behind
a bastion)
* scp(1): When copying local->remote fails during read, don't send
uninitialised heap to the remote end.
* sftp(1): Fix fatal "el_insertstr failed" errors when tab-completing
filenames with a single quote char somewhere in the string;
bz#2238
* ssh-keyscan(1): Scan for Ed25519 keys by default.
* ssh(1): When using VerifyHostKeyDNS with a DNSSEC resolver, down-
convert any certificate keys to plain keys and attempt SSHFP
resolution. Prevents a server from skipping SSHFP lookup and
forcing a new-hostkey dialog by offering only certificate keys.
* sshd(8): Avoid crash at exit via NULL pointer reference; bz#2225
* Fix some strict-alignment errors.
Portable OpenSSH
* Portable OpenSSH now supports building against libressl-portable.
* Portable OpenSSH now requires openssl 0.9.8f or greater. Older
versions are no longer supported.
* In the OpenSSL version check, allow fix version upgrades (but not
downgrades. Debian bug #748150.
* sshd(8): On Cygwin, determine privilege separation user at runtime,
since it may need to be a domain account.
* sshd(8): Don't attempt to use vhangup on Linux. It doesn't work for
non-root users, and for them it just messes up the tty settings.
* Use CLOCK_BOOTTIME in preference to CLOCK_MONOTONIC when it is
available. It considers time spent suspended, thereby ensuring
timeouts (e.g. for expiring agent keys) fire correctly. bz#2228
* Add support for ed25519 to opensshd.init init script.
* sftp-server(8): On platforms that support it, use prctl() to
prevent sftp-server from accessing /proc/self/{mem,maps}
Checksums:
==========
- SHA1 (openssh-6.7.tar.gz) = 315497b27a0186e4aef67987cfc9f3d9ba561cd8
- SHA256 (openssh-6.7.tar.gz) = /me/hPxDw9Tfd3siNKQubSQph84qiKwftiMsgj6nh5E=
- SHA1 (openssh-6.7p1.tar.gz) = 14e5fbed710ade334d65925e080d1aaeb9c85bf6
- SHA256 (openssh-6.7p1.tar.gz) = svg5Tq6Fjau9732sELma7ADJVGJ1PoA0LlMLu29yVQc=
Please note that the PGP key used to sign releases was recently rotated.
The new key has been signed by the old key to provide continuity. It is
available from the mirror sites as RELEASE_KEY.asc.
Reporting Bugs:
===============
- Please read http://www.openssh.com/report.html
Security bugs should be reported directly to openssh@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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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 6.6
=========================
Potentially-incompatible changes
* sshd(8): The default set of ciphers and MACs has been altered to
remove unsafe algorithms. In particular, CBC ciphers and arcfour*
are disabled by default.
The full set of algorithms remains available if configured
explicitly via the Ciphers and MACs sshd_config options.
* sshd(8): Support for tcpwrappers/libwrap has been removed.
* OpenSSH 6.5 and 6.6 have a bug that causes ~0.2% of connections
using the curve25519-sha256@libssh.org KEX exchange method to fail
when connecting with something that implements the specification
correctly. OpenSSH 6.7 disables this KEX method when speaking to
one of the affected versions.
New Features
* Major internal refactoring to begin to make part of OpenSSH usable
as a library. So far the wire parsing, key handling and KRL code
has been refactored. Please note that we do not consider the API
stable yet, nor do we offer the library in separable form.
* ssh(1), sshd(8): Add support for Unix domain socket forwarding.
A remote TCP port may be forwarded to a local Unix domain socket
and vice versa or both ends may be a Unix domain socket.
* ssh(1), ssh-keygen(1): Add support for SSHFP DNS records for
ED25519 key types.
* sftp(1): Allow resumption of interrupted uploads.
* ssh(1): When rekeying, skip file/DNS lookups of the hostkey if it
is the same as the one sent during initial key exchange; bz#2154
* sshd(8): Allow explicit ::1 and 127.0.0.1 forwarding bind
addresses when GatewayPorts=no; allows client to choose address
family; bz#2222
* sshd(8): Add a sshd_config PermitUserRC option to control whether
~/.ssh/rc is executed, mirroring the no-user-rc authorized_keys
option; bz#2160
* ssh(1): Add a %C escape sequence for LocalCommand and ControlPath
that expands to a unique identifer based on a hash of the tuple of
(local host, remote user, hostname, port). Helps avoid exceeding
miserly pathname limits for Unix domain sockets in multiplexing
control paths; bz#2220
* sshd(8): Make the "Too many authentication failures" message
include the user, source address, port and protocol in a format
similar to the authentication success / failure messages; bz#2199
* Added unit and fuzz tests for refactored code. These are run
automatically in portable OpenSSH via the "make tests" target.
Bugfixes
* sshd(8): Fix remote forwarding with the same listen port but
different listen address.
* ssh(1): Fix inverted test that caused PKCS#11 keys that were
explicitly listed in ssh_config or on the commandline not to be
preferred.
* ssh-keygen(1): Fix bug in KRL generation: multiple consecutive
revoked certificate serial number ranges could be serialised to an
invalid format. Readers of a broken KRL caused by this bug will
fail closed, so no should-have-been-revoked key will be accepted.
* ssh(1): Reflect stdio-forward ("ssh -W host:port ...") failures in
exit status. Previously we were always returning 0; bz#2255
* ssh(1), ssh-keygen(1): Make Ed25519 keys' title fit properly in the
randomart border; bz#2247
* ssh-agent(1): Only cleanup agent socket in the main agent process
and not in any subprocesses it may have started (e.g. forked
askpass). Fixes agent sockets being zapped when askpass processes
fatal(); bz#2236
* ssh-add(1): Make stdout line-buffered; saves partial output getting
lost when ssh-add fatal()s part-way through (e.g. when listing keys
from an agent that supports key types that ssh-add doesn't);
bz#2234
* ssh-keygen(1): When hashing or removing hosts, don't choke on
@revoked markers and don't remove @cert-authority markers; bz#2241
* ssh(1): Don't fatal when hostname canonicalisation fails and a
ProxyCommand is in use; continue and allow the ProxyCommand to
connect anyway (e.g. to a host with a name outside the DNS behind
a bastion)
* scp(1): When copying local->remote fails during read, don't send
uninitialised heap to the remote end.
* sftp(1): Fix fatal "el_insertstr failed" errors when tab-completing
filenames with a single quote char somewhere in the string;
bz#2238
* ssh-keyscan(1): Scan for Ed25519 keys by default.
* ssh(1): When using VerifyHostKeyDNS with a DNSSEC resolver, down-
convert any certificate keys to plain keys and attempt SSHFP
resolution. Prevents a server from skipping SSHFP lookup and
forcing a new-hostkey dialog by offering only certificate keys.
* sshd(8): Avoid crash at exit via NULL pointer reference; bz#2225
* Fix some strict-alignment errors.
Portable OpenSSH
* Portable OpenSSH now supports building against libressl-portable.
* Portable OpenSSH now requires openssl 0.9.8f or greater. Older
versions are no longer supported.
* In the OpenSSL version check, allow fix version upgrades (but not
downgrades. Debian bug #748150.
* sshd(8): On Cygwin, determine privilege separation user at runtime,
since it may need to be a domain account.
* sshd(8): Don't attempt to use vhangup on Linux. It doesn't work for
non-root users, and for them it just messes up the tty settings.
* Use CLOCK_BOOTTIME in preference to CLOCK_MONOTONIC when it is
available. It considers time spent suspended, thereby ensuring
timeouts (e.g. for expiring agent keys) fire correctly. bz#2228
* Add support for ed25519 to opensshd.init init script.
* sftp-server(8): On platforms that support it, use prctl() to
prevent sftp-server from accessing /proc/self/{mem,maps}
Checksums:
==========
- SHA1 (openssh-6.7.tar.gz) = 315497b27a0186e4aef67987cfc9f3d9ba561cd8
- SHA256 (openssh-6.7.tar.gz) = /me/hPxDw9Tfd3siNKQubSQph84qiKwftiMsgj6nh5E=
- SHA1 (openssh-6.7p1.tar.gz) = 14e5fbed710ade334d65925e080d1aaeb9c85bf6
- SHA256 (openssh-6.7p1.tar.gz) = svg5Tq6Fjau9732sELma7ADJVGJ1PoA0LlMLu29yVQc=
Please note that the PGP key used to sign releases was recently rotated.
The new key has been signed by the old key to provide continuity. It is
available from the mirror sites as RELEASE_KEY.asc.
Reporting Bugs:
===============
- Please read http://www.openssh.com/report.html
Security bugs should be reported directly to openssh@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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openssh-unix-announce@mindrot.org
https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-announce