SOT Linux Advisory: openssh

SOT Linux Security Advisory

1. Problem description

OpenSSH is a suite of network connectivity tools that can be
used to establish encrypted connections between systems on a
network and can provide interactive login sessions and port
forwarding, among other functions.

The OpenSSH team has announced a bug which affects the OpenSSH
buffer handling code. This bug has the potential of being remotely
exploitable.

All users of OpenSSH should immediately apply this update which
contains a backported fix for this issue.

2. Updated packages

SOT Linux 2003 Desktop:

i386:

ftp://ftp.sot.com/updates/2003/Desktop/i386/openssh-3.1p1-9.i386.rpm

ftp://ftp.sot.com/updates/2003/Desktop/i386/openssh-clients-3.1p1-9.i386.rpm

ftp://ftp.sot.com/updates/2003/Desktop/i386/openssh-server-3.1p1-9.i386.rpm

SRPMS:

ftp://ftp.sot.com/updates/2003/Desktop/SRPMS/openssh-3.1p1-9.src.rpm

SOT Linux 2003 Server:

i386:

ftp://ftp.sot.com/updates/2003/Server/i386/openssh-3.1p1-9.i386.rpm

ftp://ftp.sot.com/updates/2003/Server/i386/openssh-clients-3.1p1-9.i386.rpm

ftp://ftp.sot.com/updates/2003/Server/i386/openssh-server-3.1p1-9.i386.rpm

SRPMS:

ftp://ftp.sot.com/updates/2003/Server/SRPMS/openssh-3.1p1-9.src.rpm

3. Upgrading package

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

Use up2date to automatically upgrade the fixed packages.

If you want to upgrade manually, download the updated package
from the SOT Linux FTP site (use the links above) or from one of
our mirrors. The list of mirrors can be obtained at www.sot.com/en/linux

Update the package with the following command: rpm -Uvh
<filename>

4. Verification

All packages are PGP signed by SOT for security.

You can verify each package with the following command: rpm
–checksig <filename>

If you wish to verify the integrity of the downloaded package,
run “md5sum <filename>” and compare the output with data
given below.

Package Name MD5 sum
/Desktop/i386/openssh-3.1p1-9.i386.rpm
c40aeb1c5d9005ffa5027df7e68c6633
/Desktop/i386/openssh-clients-3.1p1-9.i386.rpm
352b00f7a2e3722b0be8f3687e83b07b
/Desktop/i386/openssh-server-3.1p1-9.i386.rpm
29407c985338a3a88e0ba868fe110b77
/Desktop/SRPMS/openssh-3.1p1-9.src.rpm
dd6f8a5dcc77966db0b995dfbe0009dd
/Server/i386/openssh-3.1p1-9.i386.rpm
c40aeb1c5d9005ffa5027df7e68c6633
/Server/i386/openssh-clients-3.1p1-9.i386.rpm
352b00f7a2e3722b0be8f3687e83b07b
/Server/i386/openssh-server-3.1p1-9.i386.rpm
29407c985338a3a88e0ba868fe110b77
/Server/SRPMS/openssh-3.1p1-9.src.rpm
dd6f8a5dcc77966db0b995dfbe0009dd

5. References

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=106371592604940

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2003-0693

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