23 Feb 2009 03:23
Announce: OpenSSH 5.2 released
Damien Miller <djm <at> cvs.openbsd.org>
2009-02-23 02:23:34 GMT
2009-02-23 02:23:34 GMT
OpenSSH 5.2 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. We have also recently completed another Internet SSH usage scan, the results of which may be found at http://www.openssh.com/usage.html 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 The focus of this release has been on bugfixes as the previous openssh-5.1 release introduced many new features and made some invasive changes. Changes since OpenSSH 5.1 ========================= Security: * This release changes the default cipher order to prefer the AES CTR modes and the revised "arcfour256" mode to CBC mode ciphers that are susceptible to CPNI-957037 "Plaintext Recovery Attack Against SSH". * This release also adds countermeasures to mitigate CPNI-957037-style attacks against the SSH protocol's use of CBC-mode ciphers. Upon(Continue reading)
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