Trustix Secure Linux Security Advisory: OpenSSH

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 18, 2001
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 16:20:49 +0200
Subject: TSLSA-2001-0023 - OpenSSH
From: Trustix Secure Linux Advisor <tsl@trustix.com>

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Trustix Secure Linux Security Advisory #2001-0023

Package name:      OpenSSH
Summary:           Possible login from disallowed source IP addresses.
Date:              2001-10-17
Affected versions: TSL 1.01, 1.1, 1.2, 1.5

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Problem description:
  From the OpenSSH Security Advisory (adv.option):
    Depending on the order of the user keys in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2
    sshd might fail to apply the source IP based access control
    restriction (e.g.  from= 10.0.0.1) to the correct key.

    Impact:
    Users can circumvent the system policy and login from disallowed
    source IP addresses.

Action:
  We recommend that all systems with this package installed are upgraded.


Location:
  All TSL updates are available from
  <URI:http://www.trustix.net/pub/Trustix/updates/>
  <URI:ftp://ftp.trustix.net/pub/Trustix/updates/>


Automatic updates:
  Users of the SWUP tool, can enjoy having updates automatically
  installed using 'swup --upgrade'.

  Get SWUP from:
  <URI:ftp://ftp.trustix.net/pub/Trustix/software/swup/>


Questions?
  Check out our mailing lists:
  <URI:http://www.trustix.net/support/>


Verification:
  This advisory along with all TSL packages are signed with the TSL sign key.
  This key available from:
  <URI:http://www.trustix.net/TSL-GPG-KEY>

  The advisory itself is available from the errata pages at
  <URI:http://www.trustix.net/errata/trustix-1.2/>
  <URI:http://www.trustix.net/errata/trustix-1.5/>
  or directly at
  <URI:http://www.trustix.net/errata/misc/2001/TSL-2001-0023-openssh.asc.txt>

MD5sums of the packages:
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ce27541cececa243b00eb7f0fe014b52 ./1.5/SRPMS/openssh-2.9.9p2-2tr.src.rpm
25e1041233671118904e33a4a635ec25 ./1.5/RPMS/openssh-server-2.9.9p2-2tr.i586.rpm
d52614ffe8699d70ab38e232f4e6cdee ./1.5/RPMS/openssh-clients-2.9.9p2-2tr.i586.rpm
f35edee01e9cd64f8fc2c7d9ca1d69a6 ./1.5/RPMS/openssh-2.9.9p2-2tr.i586.rpm
ce27541cececa243b00eb7f0fe014b52 ./1.2/SRPMS/openssh-2.9.9p2-2tr.src.rpm
2f78f08cf93f1fd4df969d4d060e51b3 ./1.2/RPMS/openssh-server-2.9.9p2-2tr.i586.rpm
56121327d5df59a7cf496cf5e432bfd5 ./1.2/RPMS/openssh-clients-2.9.9p2-2tr.i586.rpm
e9ad319aab3476f39f36394b39c82aa0 ./1.2/RPMS/openssh-2.9.9p2-2tr.i586.rpm
ce27541cececa243b00eb7f0fe014b52 ./1.1/SRPMS/openssh-2.9.9p2-2tr.src.rpm
566819db6cf81de6c7a6ec94d1c7ad01 ./1.1/RPMS/openssh-server-2.9.9p2-2tr.i586.rpm
517fdde2a4a9009cc6c5918280bd4bc2 ./1.1/RPMS/openssh-clients-2.9.9p2-2tr.i586.rpm
6d1ea6e77a9ded67380eab90252b2487 ./1.1/RPMS/openssh-2.9.9p2-2tr.i586.rpm
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Trustix Security Team
 
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Web Webster

Web Webster

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