ANNOUNCE: LSH-2.0.1, fix for denial of service bug

Niels Möller nisse at lysator.liu.se
Wed Mar 16 21:53:23 CET 2005


This is a bugfix release, which is fairly important since it fixes a
denial of service bug in lshd (and also in lsh, but that's probably of
less importance).

News for the 2.0.1 release

	Fixed denial of service bug in lshd.

	Fixed a bug in lsh-make-seed, which could make the program go
	into an infinite loop on read errors.

	lsh now asks for passwords also in quite (-q) mode, as
	described in the manual.

	Control character filtering used to sometimes consider newline
	as a dangerous control character. Now newlines should be
	displayed normally.

	Removed support for the non-standard alias
	"diffie-hellman-group2-sha1". The standardized name is for
	this key exchange method is "diffie-hellman-group14-sha1".

Since it's a small update, I'm also distributing a patch file.
Available at

  http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/archive/lsh-2.0.1.tar.gz
  ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/security/lsh/lsh-2.0.1.tar.gz

  http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/archive/lsh-2.0-2.0.1.diff.gz
  ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/security/lsh/lsh-2.0-2.0.1.diff.gz

Regards,
/Niels



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