From the release notes,
> This release contains a number of security fixes, some small features
> and bugfixes.
The most significant change in 9.6p1 is a set of fixes for a newly-
discovered weakness in the SSH transport protocol. The fix was already
merged into FreeBSD and released as FreeBSD-SA-23:19.openssh.
Full release notes at https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-9.6
Relnotes: Yes
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Excerpts from the release notes:
Potentially incompatible changes
--------------------------------
* ssh-keygen(1): generate Ed25519 keys by default.
[NOTE: This change was already merged into FreeBSD.]
* sshd(8): the Subsystem directive now accurately preserves quoting of
subsystem commands and arguments.
New features
------------
* ssh(1): add keystroke timing obfuscation to the client.
* ssh(1), sshd(8): Introduce a transport-level ping facility.
* sshd(8): allow override of Sybsystem directives in sshd Match blocks.
Full release notes at https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-9.5
Relnotes: Yes
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
This is a compromise between POLA and practical reasoning. We don't
want to block the main server loop in an attempt to resolve. But we
need to keep the format of the logged message as is, for sake of
sshguard and other scripts. So let's print just the IP address twice,
this is what libwrap's refuse() would do if it failed to resolve.
Reviewed by: philip
PR: 269456
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D40069
This part of ca573c9a17 proved to be unnecessary. As the removed
comment says, we set them merely for logging syntax errors, as we log
refusals ourselves. However, inside the libwrap the parser logs any
syntax errors with tcpd_warn() which has hardcoded LOG_WARNING inside.
Reviewed by: philip, emaste
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D40068
This release fixes a number of security bugs and has minor new
features and bug fixes. Security fixes, from the release notes
(https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-9.3):
This release contains fixes for a security problem and a memory
safety problem. The memory safety problem is not believed to be
exploitable, but we report most network-reachable memory faults as
security bugs.
* ssh-add(1): when adding smartcard keys to ssh-agent(1) with the
per-hop destination constraints (ssh-add -h ...) added in OpenSSH
8.9, a logic error prevented the constraints from being
communicated to the agent. This resulted in the keys being added
without constraints. The common cases of non-smartcard keys and
keys without destination constraints are unaffected. This problem
was reported by Luci Stanescu.
* ssh(1): Portable OpenSSH provides an implementation of the
getrrsetbyname(3) function if the standard library does not
provide it, for use by the VerifyHostKeyDNS feature. A
specifically crafted DNS response could cause this function to
perform an out-of-bounds read of adjacent stack data, but this
condition does not appear to be exploitable beyond denial-of-
service to the ssh(1) client.
The getrrsetbyname(3) replacement is only included if the system's
standard library lacks this function and portable OpenSSH was not
compiled with the ldns library (--with-ldns). getrrsetbyname(3) is
only invoked if using VerifyHostKeyDNS to fetch SSHFP records. This
problem was found by the Coverity static analyzer.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Release notes are available at https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-9.2
OpenSSH 9.2 contains fixes for two security problems and a memory safety
problem. The memory safety problem is not believed to be exploitable.
These fixes have already been committed to OpenSSH 9.1 in FreeBSD.
Some other notable items from the release notes:
* ssh(1): add a new EnableEscapeCommandline ssh_config(5) option that
controls whether the client-side ~C escape sequence that provides a
command-line is available. Among other things, the ~C command-line
could be used to add additional port-forwards at runtime.
* sshd(8): add support for channel inactivity timeouts via a new
sshd_config(5) ChannelTimeout directive. This allows channels that
have not seen traffic in a configurable interval to be
automatically closed. Different timeouts may be applied to session,
X11, agent and TCP forwarding channels.
* sshd(8): add a sshd_config UnusedConnectionTimeout option to
terminate client connections that have no open channels for a
length of time. This complements the ChannelTimeout option above.
* sshd(8): add a -V (version) option to sshd like the ssh client has.
* scp(1), sftp(1): add a -X option to both scp(1) and sftp(1) to
allow control over some SFTP protocol parameters: the copy buffer
length and the number of in-flight requests, both of which are used
during upload/download. Previously these could be controlled in
sftp(1) only. This makes them available in both SFTP protocol
clients using the same option character sequence.
* ssh-keyscan(1): allow scanning of complete CIDR address ranges,
e.g. "ssh-keyscan 192.168.0.0/24". If a CIDR range is passed, then
it will be expanded to all possible addresses in the range
including the all-0s and all-1s addresses. bz#976
* ssh(1): support dynamic remote port forwarding in escape
command-line's -R processing. bz#3499
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Release notes are available at https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-9.1
9.1 contains fixes for three minor memory safety problems; these have
lready been merged to the copy of OpenSSH 9.0 that is in the FreeBSD base
system.
Some highlights copied from the release notes:
Potentially-incompatible changes
--------------------------------
* ssh(1), sshd(8): SetEnv directives in ssh_config and sshd_config
are now first-match-wins to match other directives. Previously
if an environment variable was multiply specified the last set
value would have been used. bz3438
* ssh-keygen(8): ssh-keygen -A (generate all default host key types)
will no longer generate DSA keys, as these are insecure and have
not been used by default for some years.
New features
------------
* ssh(1), sshd(8): add a RequiredRSASize directive to set a minimum
RSA key length. Keys below this length will be ignored for user
authentication and for host authentication in sshd(8).
* sftp-server(8): add a "users-groups-by-id@openssh.com" extension
request that allows the client to obtain user/group names that
correspond to a set of uids/gids.
* sftp(1): use "users-groups-by-id@openssh.com" sftp-server
extension (when available) to fill in user/group names for
directory listings.
* sftp-server(8): support the "home-directory" extension request
defined in draft-ietf-secsh-filexfer-extensions-00. This overlaps
a bit with the existing "expand-path@openssh.com", but some other
clients support it.
* ssh-keygen(1), sshd(8): allow certificate validity intervals,
sshsig verification times and authorized_keys expiry-time options
to accept dates in the UTC time zone in addition to the default
of interpreting them in the system time zone. YYYYMMDD and
YYMMDDHHMM[SS] dates/times will be interpreted as UTC if suffixed
with a 'Z' character.
Also allow certificate validity intervals to be specified in raw
seconds-since-epoch as hex value, e.g. -V 0x1234:0x4567890. This
is intended for use by regress tests and other tools that call
ssh-keygen as part of a CA workflow. bz3468
* sftp(1): allow arguments to the sftp -D option, e.g. sftp -D
"/usr/libexec/sftp-server -el debug3"
* ssh-keygen(1): allow the existing -U (use agent) flag to work
with "-Y sign" operations, where it will be interpreted to require
that the private keys is hosted in an agent; bz3429
MFC after: 2 weeks
Relnotes: Yes
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
With the upgrade to OpenSSH 6.7p1 in commit a0ee8cc636 we replaced
WITH_OPENSSL ifdefs with an OPENSSL_VERSION macro, later changing it
to OPENSSL_VERSION_STRING.
A few years later OpenSSH made an equivalent change (with a different
macro name), in commit 4d94b031ff88. Switch to the macro name they
chose.
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
After we moved to git $FreeBSD$ is no longer expanded and serves no
purpose. Remove them from OpenSSH to reduce diffs against upstream.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Release notes are available at https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-9.0
Some highlights:
* ssh(1), sshd(8): use the hybrid Streamlined NTRU Prime + x25519 key
exchange method by default ("sntrup761x25519-sha512@openssh.com").
The NTRU algorithm is believed to resist attacks enabled by future
quantum computers and is paired with the X25519 ECDH key exchange
(the previous default) as a backstop against any weaknesses in
NTRU Prime that may be discovered in the future. The combination
ensures that the hybrid exchange offers at least as good security
as the status quo.
* sftp-server(8): support the "copy-data" extension to allow server-
side copying of files/data, following the design in
draft-ietf-secsh-filexfer-extensions-00. bz2948
* sftp(1): add a "cp" command to allow the sftp client to perform
server-side file copies.
This commit excludes the scp(1) change to use the SFTP protocol by
default; that change will immediately follow.
MFC after: 1 month
Relnotes: Yes
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Release notes are available at https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-8.9
Some highlights:
* ssh(1), sshd(8), ssh-add(1), ssh-agent(1): add a system for
restricting forwarding and use of keys added to ssh-agent(1)
* ssh(1), sshd(8): add the sntrup761x25519-sha512@openssh.com hybrid
ECDH/x25519 + Streamlined NTRU Prime post-quantum KEX to the
default KEXAlgorithms list (after the ECDH methods but before the
prime-group DH ones). The next release of OpenSSH is likely to
make this key exchange the default method.
* sshd(8), portable OpenSSH only: this release removes in-built
support for MD5-hashed passwords. If you require these on your
system then we recommend linking against libxcrypt or similar.
Future deprecation notice
=========================
A near-future release of OpenSSH will switch scp(1) from using the
legacy scp/rcp protocol to using SFTP by default.
Legacy scp/rcp performs wildcard expansion of remote filenames (e.g.
"scp host:* .") through the remote shell. This has the side effect of
requiring double quoting of shell meta-characters in file names
included on scp(1) command-lines, otherwise they could be interpreted
as shell commands on the remote side.
MFC after: 1 month
Relnotes: Yes
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
OpenSSH has dropped libwrap support in OpenSSH 6.7p in 2014
(f2719b7c in github.com/openssh/openssh-portable) and we
maintain the patch ourselves since 2016 (a0ee8cc636).
Over the years, the libwrap support has deteriotated and probably
that was reason for removal upstream. Original idea of libwrap was
to drop illegitimate connection as soon as possible, but over the
years the code was pushed further down and down and ended in the
forked client connection handler.
The negative effects of late dropping is increasing attack surface
for hosts that are to be dropped anyway. Apart from hypothetical
future vulnerabilities in connection handling, today a malicious
host listed in /etc/hosts.allow still can trigger sshd to enter
connection throttling mode, which is enabled by default (see
MaxStartups in sshd_config(5)), effectively casting DoS attack.
Note that on OpenBSD this attack isn't possible, since they enable
MaxStartups together with UseBlacklist.
A only negative effect from early drop, that I can imagine, is that
now main listener parses file in /etc, and if our root filesystems
goes bad, it would get stuck. But unlikely you'd be able to login
in that case anyway.
Implementation details:
- For brevity we reuse the same struct request_info. This isn't
a documented feature of libwrap, but code review, viewing data
in a debugger and real life testing shows that if we clear
RQ_CLIENT_NAME and RQ_CLIENT_ADDR every time, it works as intended.
- We set SO_LINGER on the socket to force immediate connection reset.
- We log message exactly as libwrap's refuse() would do.
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D33044
Some notable changes, from upstream's release notes:
- sshd(8): Remove support for obsolete "host/port" syntax.
- ssh(1): When prompting whether to record a new host key, accept the key
fingerprint as a synonym for "yes".
- ssh-keygen(1): when acting as a CA and signing certificates with an RSA
key, default to using the rsa-sha2-512 signature algorithm.
- ssh(1), sshd(8), ssh-keygen(1): this release removes the "ssh-rsa"
(RSA/SHA1) algorithm from those accepted for certificate signatures.
- ssh-sk-helper(8): this is a new binary. It is used by the FIDO/U2F
support to provide address-space isolation for token middleware
libraries (including the internal one).
- ssh(1): this release enables UpdateHostkeys by default subject to some
conservative preconditions.
- scp(1): this release changes the behaviour of remote to remote copies
(e.g. "scp host-a:/path host-b:") to transfer through the local host
by default.
- scp(1): experimental support for transfers using the SFTP protocol as
a replacement for the venerable SCP/RCP protocol that it has
traditionally used.
Additional integration work is needed to support FIDO/U2F in the base
system.
Deprecation Notice
------------------
OpenSSH will disable the ssh-rsa signature scheme by default in the
next release.
Reviewed by: imp
MFC after: 1 month
Relnotes: Yes
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D29985
This was introduced in 8998619212, and left behind when the hpn-ssh
patches were removed in 60c59fad88. Although Being able to log
SO_RCVBUF in debug mode might have some small value on its own, it's
not worth carrying an extra diff against upstream.
Reviewed by: kevans
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D28610
This change was made upstream between 7.9p1 and 8.0p1. We've made local
changes in the same places for handling the version_addendum; apply the
SSLeay_version to OpenSSL_version change in advance of importing 8.0p1.
This should have been part of r363225.
Obtained from: OpenSSH-portable a65784c9f9c5
MFC with: r363225
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
This change was made upstream between 7.9p1 and 8.0p1. We've made local
changes in the same places for handling the version_addendum; apply the
SSLeay_version to OpenSSL_version change in advance of importing 8.0p1.
Obtained from: OpenSSH-portable a65784c9f9c5
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
* Add a wrapper to proxy login_getpwclass(3) as it is not allowed in
capability mode.
* Cache timezone data via caph_cache_tzdata() as we cannot access the
timezone file.
* Reverse resolve hostname before entering capability mode.
PR: 231172
Submitted by: naito.yuichiro@gmail.com
Reviewed by: cem, des
Approved by: re (rgrimes)
MFC after: 3 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17128
Compatibility with existing OpenSSL versions is maintained.
Upstream commits:
482d23bcac upstream: hold our collective noses and use the openssl-1.1.x
48f54b9d12 adapt -portable to OpenSSL 1.1x API
86e0a9f3d2 upstream: use only openssl-1.1.x API here too
a3fd8074e2 upstream: missed a bit of openssl-1.0.x API in this unittest
cce8cbe0ed Fix openssl-1.1 fallout for --without-openssl.
Trivial conflicts in sshkey.c and test_sshkey.c were resolved.
Connect libressl-api-compat.c to the build, and regenerate config.h
Reviewed by: des
Approved by: re (rgrimes)
MFC after: 2 seeks
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17444
Local changes introduced an OPENSSH_VERSION macro, but this conflicts
with a macro of the same name introduced with OepnsSL 1.1.1
Reviewed by: des
Approved by: re (gjb)
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
This completely removes client-side support for the SSH 1 protocol,
which was already disabled in 12 but is still enabled in 11. For that
reason, we will not be able to merge 7.6p1 or newer back to 11.
Adjust notification points slightly to catch all auth failures,
rather than just the ones caused by bad usernames.
Modify notification point for bad usernames to send new type of
BLACKLIST_BAD_USER. (Support in libblacklist will be forthcoming soon.)
Add guards to allow library headers to expose the enum of action values.
Reviewed by: des
Approved by: des
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Change the calls to of blacklist_init() and blacklist_notify to be
macros defined in the blacklist_client.h file. This avoids
the need for #ifdef USE_BLACKLIST / #endif except in the
blacklist.c file.
Remove redundent initialization attempts from within
blacklist_notify - everything always goes through
blacklistd_init().
Added UseBlacklist option to sshd, which defaults to off.
To enable the functionality, use '-o UseBlacklist=yes' on
the command line, or uncomment in the sshd_config file.
Reviewed by: des
Approved by: des
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D7051
This change has functional impact, and other concerns raised
by the OpenSSH maintainer.
Requested by: des
PR: 210479 (related)
Approved by: re (marius)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Reviewed by: rpaulo
Approved by: rpaulo (earlier version of changes)
Relnotes: YES
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5915
repeat performance by introducing a script that runs configure with and
without Kerberos, diffs the result and generates krb5_config.h, which
contains the preprocessor macros that need to be defined in the Kerberos
case and undefined otherwise.
Approved by: re (marius)
