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Debian: DSA-1576-1 Critical OpenSSH Randomness Attack Mitigated

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Calendar Grey May 14, 2008
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Summary


This update contains a dependency on the openssl update and will
automatically install a corrected version of the libss0.9.8 package,
and a new package openssh-blacklist.

Once the update is applied, weak user keys will be automatically
rejected where possible (though they cannot be detected in all
cases). If you are using such keys for user authentication, they
will immediately stop working and will need to be replaced (see
step 3).

OpenSSH host keys can be automatically regenerated when the OpenSSH
security update is applied. The update will prompt for confirmation
before taking this step.

2. Update OpenSSH known_hosts files

The regeneration of host keys will cause a warning to be displayed when
connecting to the system using SSH until the host key is updated in the
known_hosts file. The warning will look like this:

@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@ WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGE...

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