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Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2023 12:10:31 +0000
From: Qualys Security Advisory <qsa@...lys.com>
To: Demi Marie Obenour <demi@...isiblethingslab.com>
CC: "oss-security@...ts.openwall.com" <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: Announce: OpenSSH 9.3p2 released
Hi,
On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 09:22:08PM -0400, Demi Marie Obenour wrote:
> IMO the root cause of this problem is that PKCS#11 libraries are installed
> in /usr/lib, rather than in /usr/lib/pkcs11 or another subdirectory.
> There should be an automated way to check if a library is a PKCS#11
> library without having to load it.
Wednesday's release was a security-only release, the two patches it
contains are very simple, unlikely to break any existing installation,
and one of these patches at least (the s/error/fatal/ one) is very easy
to backport.
But the OpenSSH developers have done an amazing job and have not only
prepared these security-only patches, they have also prepared two more
defense-in-depth patches (which are more intrusive and therefore need
testing by the community first):
https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/commit/29ef8a04866ca14688d5b7fed7b8b9deab851f77
https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/commit/099cdf59ce1e72f55d421c8445bf6321b3004755
The first one of these patches is probably what you are looking for
("check if a library is a PKCS#11 library without having to load it").
Thanks again to the OpenSSH developers for their incredible work! With
best regards,
--
the Qualys Security Advisory team
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