Call for testing: OpenSSH-6.2

[Damien Miller]

Hi,

It's that time again...

OpenSSH 6.2 is almost ready for release, so we would appreciate testing
on as many platforms and systems as possible. This release contains
some substantial new features and a number of bugfixes.

Snapshot releases for portable OpenSSH are available from
http://www.mindrot.org/openssh_snap/

The OpenBSD version is available in CVS HEAD:
http://www.openbsd.org/anoncvs.html

Portable OpenSSH is also available via anonymous CVS using the
instructions at http://www.openssh.com/portable.html#cvs or
via Mercurial at http://hg.mindrot.org/openssh

Running the regression tests supplied with Portable OpenSSH does not
require installation and is a simply:

$ ./configure && make tests

Live testing on suitable non-production systems is also
appreciated. Please send reports of success or failure to
openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org.

Below is a summary of changes. More detail may be found in the ChangeLog
in the portable OpenSSH tarballs.

Thanks to the many people who contributed to this release.

Changes since OpenSSH 6.1
=========================

Features:

 * ssh(1)/sshd(8): Added support for AES-GCM authenticated encryption in
   SSH protocol 2. The new cipher is available as aes128-gcm at openssh.com
   and aes256-gcm at openssh.com. It uses an identical packet format to the
   AES-GCM mode specified in RFC 5647, but uses simpler and different
   selection rules during key exchange.

 * ssh(1)/sshd(8): Added support for encrypt-then-mac (EtM) MAC modes
   for SSH protocol 2. These modes alter the packet format and compute
   the MAC over the packet length and encrypted packet rather than over
   the plaintext data. These modes are considered more secure and are
   used by default when available.

 * ssh(1)/sshd(8): Added support for the UMAC-128 MAC as
   "umac-128 at openssh.com" and "umac-128-etm at openssh.com". The latter
   being an encrypt-then-mac mode.

 * sshd(8): Added support for multiple required authentication in SSH
   protocol 2 via an AuthenticationMethods option. This option lists
   one or more comma-separated lists of authentication method names.
   Successful completion of all the methods in any list is required for
   authentication to complete. This allows, for example, requiring a
   user having to authenticate via public key or GSSAPI before they
   are offered password authentication.

 * sshd(8)/ssh-keygen(1): Added support for Key Revocation Lists
   (KRLs), a compact binary format to represent lists of revoked keys
   and certificates that take as little as one bit per certificate when
   revoking by serial number. KRLs may be generated using ssh-keygen(1)
   and are loaded into sshd(8) via the existing RevokedKeys sshd_config
   option.

 * ssh(1): IdentitiesOnly now applies to keys obtained from a
   PKCS11Provider. This allows control of which keys are offered from
   tokens using IdentityFile.

 * sshd(8): sshd_config(5)'s AllowTcpForwarding now accepts "local"
   and "remote" in addition to its previous "yes"/"no" keywords to allow
   the server to specify whether just local or remote TCP forwarding is
   enabled.

 * sshd(8): Added a sshd_config(5) option AuthorizedKeysCommand to
   support fetching authorized_keys from a command in addition to (or
   instead of) from the filesystem. The command is run under an account
   specified by an AuthorizedKeysCommandUser sshd_config(5) option.

 * sftp-server(8): Now supports a -d option to allow the starting
   directory to be something other than the user's home directory.

 * ssh-keygen(1): Now allows fingerprinting of keys hosted in PKCS#11
   tokens using "ssh-keygen -lD pkcs11_provider".

 * ssh(1): When SSH protocol 2 only is selected (the default), ssh(1)
   now immediately sends its SSH protocol banner to the server without
   waiting to receive the server's banner, saving time when connecting.

 * ssh(1): Added ~v and ~V escape sequences to raise and lower the
   logging level respectively.

 * ssh(1): Made the escape command help (~?) context sensitive so that
   only commands that will work in the current session are shown.

 * ssh-keygen(1): When deleting host lines from known_hosts using
   "ssh-keygen -R host", ssh-keygen(1) now prints details of which lines
   were removed.
    
Bugfixes:

 * ssh(1): Force a clean shutdown of ControlMaster client sessions when
   the ~. escape sequence is used. This means that ~. should now work in
   mux clients even if the server is no longer responding.

 * ssh(1): Correctly detect errors during local TCP forward setup in
   multiplexed clients. bz#2055

 * ssh-add(1): Made deleting explicit keys "ssh-add -d" symmetric with
   adding keys with respect to certificates. It now tries to delete the
   corresponding certificate and respects the -k option to allow deleting
   of the key only.

 * sftp(1): Fix a number of parsing and command-editing bugs, including
   bz#1956

 * ssh(1): When muxmaster is run with -N, ensured that it shuts down
   gracefully when a client sends it "-O stop" rather than hanging around.
   bz#1985

 * ssh-keygen(1): When screening moduli candidates, append to the file
   rather than overwriting to allow resumption. bz#1957

 * ssh(1): Record "Received disconnect" messages at ERROR rather than
   INFO priority. bz#2057.

 * ssh(1): Loudly warn if explicitly-provided private key is unreadable.
   bz#1981

Portable OpenSSH:

 * sshd(8): The Linux seccomp-filter sandbox is now supported on ARM
   platforms where the kernel supports it.

 * sshd(8): The seccomp-filter sandbox will not be enabled if the system
   headers support it at compile time, regardless of whether it can be
   enabled then. If the run-time system does not support seccomp-filter,
   sshd will fall back to the rlimit pseudo-sandbox.

 * ssh(1): Don't link in the Kerberos libraries. They aren't necessary
   on the client, just on sshd(8). bz#2072

 * Fix GSSAPI linking on Solaris, which uses a differently-named GSSAPI
   library. bz#2073

 * Fix compilation on systems with openssl-1.0.0-fips.

 * Fix a number of errors in the RPM spec files.

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

- Please read http://www.openssh.com/report.html
  Security bugs should be reported directly to openssh at openssh.com

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