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From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: OpenSSH-3.4p1-1
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Message-Id: <20020626170013.2777A1B5E3@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 13:00:13 -0400 (EDT)

I've updated the version of OpenSSH to 3.4p1-1.

This is a official bug fix release.

Note that the Cygwin source differs in one file from the official
source since a last minute patch of the official OpenSSH maintainers
did break privilege separation for Cygwin again :-(  So the Cygwin
source archive contains a patched sshd.c.

The comment given yesterday concerning privilege separation in Cygwin
still applies:

========================================================================
This version allows to use privilege separation in a slightly restricted
way.  Since privilege separation is consisting of two independent parts
(preauth, postauth) and only the postauth part requires descriptors
passing, this version enables the usage of preauth privilege separation
in Cygwin.  Note that this doesn't create an additional sshd process as
described in the README.privsep file and note that this isn't still as
secure as fully-fledged privilege separation but it's a good start.

Since using privilege separation requires creating a new account called
"sshd" and creating a directory /var/empty, this is still not the default
setting on Cygwin.  If you want to use privilege separation, please
follow the hints of the /usr/doc/openssh/README.privsep document.
And please switch on your brain's abstraction layer since you can't
obviously not use `useradd' and you can't obviously not create a
group with the same name on NT systems.  Creating that group isn't
actually required, fortunately.
========================================================================

Ok, this release fixes a security problem in sshd.  The following
text is the...

Official Security Advisory:
========================================================================
1. Versions affected:

        All versions of OpenSSH's sshd between 2.9.9 and 3.3
        contain an input validation error that can result in
        an integer overflow and privilege escalation.

        OpenSSH 3.4 and later are not affected.

        OpenSSH 3.2 and later prevent privilege escalation
        if UsePrivilegeSeparation is enabled in sshd_config.
        OpenSSH 3.3 enables UsePrivilegeSeparation by
        default.

        Although OpenSSH 2.9 and earlier are not affected
        upgrading to OpenSSH 3.4 is recommended, because
        OpenSSH 3.4 adds checks for a class of potential bugs.

2. Impact:

        This bug can be exploited remotely if
        ChallengeResponseAuthentication is enabled in sshd_config.

        Affected are at least systems supporting
        s/key over SSH protocol version 2 (OpenBSD, FreeBSD
        and NetBSD as well as other systems supporting
        s/key with SSH).  Exploitablitly of systems
        using PAM in combination has not been verified.

3. Short-Term Solution:

        Disable ChallengeResponseAuthentication in sshd_config.

        or

        Enable UsePrivilegeSeparation in sshd_config.

4. Solution:

        Upgrade to OpenSSH 3.4 or apply the following patches.

5. Credits:

        ISS.

Appendix:

A:

Index: auth2-chall.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/ssh/auth2-chall.c,v
retrieving revision 1.18
diff -u -r1.18 auth2-chall.c
--- auth2-chall.c       19 Jun 2002 00:27:55 -0000      1.18
+++ auth2-chall.c       26 Jun 2002 09:37:03 -0000
@@ -256,6 +256,8 @@

        authctxt->postponed = 0;        /* reset */
        nresp = packet_get_int();
+       if (nresp > 100)
+               fatal("input_userauth_info_response: nresp too big %u", nresp);
        if (nresp > 0) {
                response = xmalloc(nresp * sizeof(char*));
                for (i = 0; i < nresp; i++)

B:

Index: auth2-pam.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvs/openssh/auth2-pam.c,v
retrieving revision 1.12
diff -u -r1.12 auth2-pam.c
--- auth2-pam.c 22 Jan 2002 12:43:13 -0000      1.12
+++ auth2-pam.c 26 Jun 2002 10:12:31 -0000
@@ -140,6 +140,15 @@
        nresp = packet_get_int();       /* Number of responses. */
        debug("got %d responses", nresp);

+
+       if (nresp != context_pam2.num_expected)
+               fatal("%s: Received incorrect number of responses "
+                   "(expected %u, received %u)", __func__, nresp,
+                   context_pam2.num_expected);
+
+       if (nresp > 100)
+               fatal("%s: too many replies", __func__);
+
        for (i = 0; i < nresp; i++) {
                int j = context_pam2.prompts[i];

========================================================================


And now the...

Official Release Message:
====================================================================
OpenSSH 3.4 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 would like to thank the OpenSSH community for their continued
support and encouragement.


Changes since OpenSSH 3.3:
============================

Security Changes:
=================

  All versions of OpenSSH's sshd between 2.9.9 and 3.3
  contain an input validation error that can result in
  an integer overflow and privilege escalation.

  OpenSSH 3.4 fixes this bug.

  In addition, OpenSSH 3.4 adds many checks to detect
  invalid input and mitigate resource exhaustion attacks.  

  OpenSSH 3.2 and later prevent privilege escalation
  if UsePrivilegeSeparation is enabled in sshd_config.
  OpenSSH 3.3 enables UsePrivilegeSeparation by
  default.


Reporting Bugs:
===============

- please read http://www.openssh.com/report.html
  and http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/

OpenSSH is brought to you by Markus Friedl, Niels Provos, Theo de Raadt,
Kevin Steves, Damien Miller and Ben Lindstrom.
====================================================================

To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on
the http://cygwin.com/ web page.  This downloads setup.exe to your  
system.  Once you've downloaded setup.exe, run it and select "Net" and
then click on the appropriate field until the above announced version
number appears if it is not displayed already.

If you have questions or comments, please send them to the Cygwin
mailing list at: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com .  I would appreciate it if you would
use this mailing list rather than emailing me directly.  This includes
ideas and comments about the setup utility or Cygwin in general.

If you want to make a point or ask a question, the Cygwin mailing list
is the appropriate place.

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