Hi Atro,

I would assume this also fixes the problem with krb5_xfree() and the
renamed libcrypto.x to libk5crypto.x. I posted a patch for this about 2
weeks ago.

Carl

On 30-Jun-00 Atro Tossavainen wrote:
> Dear Sami,
> 
>> We released a new version of ssh1, ssh-1.2.28. This has the latest
>> Kerberos related security fixes.
> 
> A few other recent fixes come to mind that should also be there, but
> aren't:
> 
> - disallowing access via unsupported ciphers (particularly "none") from
>   malicious clients in sshd.c, as discovered and patched by Markus
> Friedl
>   in a Dec 1999 post to Bugtraq and forwarded to the ssh list by Jean
>   Chouanard on Dec 14, 1999�;
>   
> - not hogging syslog file handles (to guard against potential problems
>   on large multi-user IRIX machines), as discovered and patched�
>   (against 1.2.26!) by James Barlow in February 1999;
> 
> - making sure scp's don't miss data at the ends of files; I am sorry
>   I can't attribute this change to anybody (please stand up!) and I
>   didn't find the patch on any search engines or the list archive
>   either, but it's been patched in March 2000, it's a few lines in
>   serverloop.c, around line 429, and essentially adds checking for
>   file descriptor EOF in two places.
> 
> � <URL:http://www.cs.hut.fi/ssh-archive/messages/991214-211116-6383>
> 
> �
> <URL:http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/CC/ssh/patch_repository/descriptio
> ns/syslog_open_handle.html>
> 
> -- 
> Atro Tossavainen (Mr.), Systems Analyst, contact info at URL,
> +358-9-19158939
> Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Finland
> My opinions may freely be shared by my employers if they want to.
> < URL : http : / / www . iki . fi / atro . tossavainen / >

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