Is there any impact?

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Thu Sep 7 08:08:08 EST 2006


On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, santhi wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> Is there any impact in OpenSSH build with OpenSSL 0.9.7j as OpenSSL is
> affected by the following vulnerability
> http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20060905.txt ?

No, OpenSSH performs its own RSA verification which has always checked
that the signature is not overly long. See ssh-rsa.c for details.

-d




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