Subject: Ssh 1.2.23 available
To: None <tech-security@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Tero Kivinen <kivinen@iki.fi>
List: tech-security
Date: 05/12/1998 10:54:29
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SSH-1.2.23 (and its PGP signature) is now available from
ftp.cs.hut.fi:/pub/ssh. It should appear to other mirror sites soon.
Ssh 1.2.23 release notes
SECURITY
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* Fixed no-port-forwarding so that it will also disable local port
forwardings at the server side.
* Added GatewayPorts option and -g option from Steve Bellovin
<smb@research.att.com>. After this all port forwardings are bind to
localhost address only, unless -g option is given.
SSHD
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* Added .rhosts to understand #-comment in the end of the line.
Patch from <lamont@cranston.fc.hp.com>.
* Added setting of REMOTEUSER environment variable name if remote
username available.
* Added configure option --with-nologin-allow[=3D/etc/nologin.allow]
to have sshd read the given file for a list of usernames exempt from
/etc/nologin. This allows administrators retain remote access in the
case of needed maintainence when users needed to not be on the
system. Jointly created by Philip Kizer <pckizer@nostrum.com> and
<steele@nostrum.com>.
* Added IgnoreRootRhosts option to server config file. Patch from
Luke Mewburn <lm@cs.rmit.edu.au>.
* Added ssh version 2 compat option. The ssh2 will start ssh1 with -V
option if the client is not ssh2 client.
* Added code that will ignore the string given to SSH_MSG_IGNORE.
Bug reported by Bernard Perrot <perrot@lal.in2p3.fr>.
* Check that proxy command isn't empy before starting it. Patch
from Chuck Goodhart <ceg@alumni.caltech.edu>.
* Added patch from Bill O'Neill <woneill@thunder.ocis.temple.edu>
that will fix the Digital Unix 4.0 C2 password expiration problems.
* Patch from John P.Speno <speno@isc.upenn.edu> to allow osf c2
resources to be set to 0.
* Added checking of system default lock from John P.Speno
<speno@isc.upenn.edu>.
* Added patch that will force password change if OSF C2 password
is expired. Patch from Florian Fuchs.
* Added libwrap calls to debug mode sshd also.
* Added code that will set resource limits under BSD/OS. Patch
from Payl Borman <prb@bsdi.com>.
* Added setting of AUTHSTATE and KRB5CCNAME environment variables
if we have authenticate() in AIX. Patch from Matt Richards
(v2matt@btv.ibm.com).
* FreeBSD /etc/login.conf capabilities patches from Steve Birnbaum
<sbirn@security.org.il> and torstenb@FreeBSD.ORG.
* Fixed idle_timeout code in serverloop.c. Patch from Bob Goellner
<bgelnr@bbn.com>.
* Moved initgroups before closing all filedescriptors. Patch from
Donald Buczek <buczek@MPING-Berlin-Dahlem.MPG.DE>.
* Combined two getpwent calls in the ssh.c to get around bug in
red hat 4.2 nis library.
* Added using of aix authenticate function if it exists from Matt
Richards (v2matt@btv.ibm.com).
* Added check that kerberos initialization succeeds from Dima
Ruban (dima@best.net).
* Added check that .rhosts/.shosts file cannot have any other
control characters except whitespaces.
* includes.h (S_ISLNK): Fixed bug reported by Paul J. Sanchez
<paul@spectrum.slu.edu>.
AGENT
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* Fixed too early free of authsocket in the authfd.c (reported by
many people).
* Added grabbing of keyboard in ssh-askpass. Patch from Raymund
Will <ray@caldera.de>.
* Allow authentication socket to be symlink, if we are not suid.
Patch from Steve Birnbaum <sbirn@security.org.il>.
SSH
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* Configurable password prompt from Maciej W. Rozycki
<macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>.
* Added setsid patch for -f option in ssh from Garance A Drosehn
<gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu>.
* Disabled TCP_NODELAY and added --enable-tcp-nodelay configure
option to enable it again (Sean Doran <smb@ebone.net>).
SCP
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* Fixed 2 GB file handling in scp. Bug reported by Anthony
Talltree <aad@nwnet.net>.
MAKE-KNOWN-HOSTS.PL
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* Fixed make-known-hosts.pl so that it will first send SIGINT to
ssh and then wait 1 second before sending SIGKILL. This will allow
ssh-client to die cleanly and restore the terminal settings before
exiting.
CONFIGURE
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* Added cray T3E patches from Kaj Mustikkam=94ki
(kaj.mustikkamaki@csc.fi).
* Added socks5 with kerberos patches from E. Jay Berkenbilt
<ejb@ql.org>.
* Added dectection of ttyslot function in the configure.in. Use it if
found.
* Added support for X11 socket being in the /var/X/.X11-unix
instead of /tmp/.X11-unix directory (mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca).
GENERAL
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* Make make install compatible with ssh-2. It will now install the
binaries as <program>1 and if the <program>2 already exists it
doesn't do anything more. If <program>2 does not exists, make
install will make a symbolic link from <program> to <program>1. This
means that if you have ssh2 installed then the make install doesn't
touch ssh-program, it will just install itself as ssh1. You can
manually change the ssh link to point either ssh1 or ssh2.
REMEMBER
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* Ssh compilation success/failure web-page. You can fill in the reply
form about your compilation at
<URL:http://www.ssh.net/ssh_form.html>. You can query about the
success/failure database from
<URL:http://www.ssh.net/ssh_query.html>.
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SSH Communications Security http://www.ssh.fi/
SSH IPSEC Toolkit http://www.ssh.fi/ipsec/
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