TEST RELEASE: 1.2.3pre5

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Sat Mar 18 00:36:44 EST 2000


Yeat another test release. This fixes a few problems that were 
reported in the last 24 hours.

One security problem fixed by this release is the braindead linking
behaviour of AIX's ld. In their infinite wisdom, IBM decided to make
the -L linker flag specify /runtime/ link paths. This could allow
someone to substitute a modified shared library to a suid program.
For gory details, have a look for a recent message "Unexpected and
dangerous AIX 4.X linker behavior" in a BUGTRAQ archive. Thanks to Jim
Knoble for pointing this out.

I am keen to hear reports from AIX users.

Regards,
Damien Miller

20000317
 - Clarified --with-default-path option.
 - Added -blibpath handling for AIX to work around stupid runtime linking.
	Problem elucidated by gshapiro at SENDMAIL.ORG by way of Jim Knoble
	<jmknoble at pobox.com>
 - Checks for 64 bit int types. Problem report from Mats Fredholm
	<matsf at init.se>
 - OpenBSD CVS updates:
	- [atomicio.c auth-krb4.c bufaux.c channels.c compress.c fingerprint.c] 
	  [packet.h radix.c rsa.c scp.c ssh-agent.c ssh-keygen.c sshconnect.c]
	  [sshd.c]
	  pedantic: signed vs. unsigned, void*-arithm, etc
	- [ssh.1 sshd.8]
	  Various cleanups and standardizations.
 - Runtime error fix for HPUX from Otmar Stahl 
	<O.Stahl at lsw.uni-heidelberg.de>

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