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Date:      Thu, 04 Jul 2002 10:59:16 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Mark Hartley <mark@work.drapple.com>
To:        D J Hawkey Jr <hawkeyd@visi.com>
Cc:        stable at FreeBSD <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>, Christopher Schulte <schulte+freebsd@nospam.schulte.org>
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD-STABLE now has OpenSSH 3.4p1
Message-ID:  <XFMail.020704105916.mark@work.drapple.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020704123016.A89510@sheol.localdomain>

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On 04-Jul-02 D J Hawkey Jr wrote:
> On Jul 04, at 12:18 PM, Christopher Schulte wrote:
>> 
>> At 11:59 AM 7/4/2002 -0500, D J Hawkey Jr wrote:
>> >Once the dust has settled, will the recent changes in 4.6-STABLE be MFC'd
>> >to 4.6-RELEASE:
>> >
>> >   - OpenSSH 3.4p1
>> 
>> I don't think so.
>> 
>>  >At this time, OpenSSH 3.4 will not be merged into the security
>>  >branches.  They are currently not vulnerable, and major upgrades are
>>  >outside the scope of the security branches, particularly when such
>>  >upgrades are practically guaranteed to break existing installations.
> 
> But, but... But 4.6-RELEASE is vulnerable, as I understand it, and OpenSSH
> has to be considered within scope, no?
> 

The OpenSSH in 4.6-RELEASE is NOT vulnerable to the recent ssh hole.  This has
been stated several times (though maybe not on the -stable list).  See this
link for more details:

http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=468648+0+current/freebsd-security


Mark.

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