Setting this to "no" causes sshd to omit the Debian revision from its
initial protocol handshake, for those scared by package-versioning.patch.
Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/562048
Forwarded: not-needed
Last-Update: 2020-02-21
Patch-Name: debian-banner.patch
Gbp-Pq: Name debian-banner.patch
This makes it easier to audit networks for versions patched against security
vulnerabilities. It has little detrimental effect, as attackers will
generally just try attacks rather than bothering to scan for
vulnerable-looking version strings. (However, see debian-banner.patch.)
Forwarded: not-needed
Last-Update: 2019-06-05
Patch-Name: package-versioning.patch
Gbp-Pq: Name package-versioning.patch
Tweak scp's reporting of filenames in verbose mode to be a bit less
confusing with spaces.
This should be revised to mimic real shell quoting.
Bug-Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/89945
Last-Update: 2010-02-27
Patch-Name: scp-quoting.patch
Gbp-Pq: Name scp-quoting.patch
Allow secure files (~/.ssh/config, ~/.ssh/authorized_keys, etc.) to be
group-writable, provided that the group in question contains only the file's
owner. Rejected upstream for IMO incorrect reasons (e.g. a misunderstanding
about the contents of gr->gr_mem). Given that per-user groups and umask 002
are the default setup in Debian (for good reasons - this makes operating in
setgid directories with other groups much easier), we need to permit this by
default.
Bug: https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1060
Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=314347
Last-Update: 2019-10-09
Patch-Name: user-group-modes.patch
Gbp-Pq: Name user-group-modes.patch
"LogLevel SILENT" (-qq) was introduced in Debian openssh 1:3.0.1p1-1 to
match the behaviour of non-free SSH, in which -q does not suppress fatal
errors. However, this was unintentionally broken in 1:4.6p1-2 and nobody
complained, so we've dropped most of it. The parts that remain are basic
configuration file compatibility, and an adjustment to "Pseudo-terminal will
not be allocated ..." which should be split out into a separate patch.
Author: Matthew Vernon <matthew@debian.org>
Author: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Last-Update: 2013-09-14
Patch-Name: syslog-level-silent.patch
Gbp-Pq: Name syslog-level-silent.patch
Add compatibility aliases for ProtocolKeepAlives and SetupTimeOut, supported
in previous versions of Debian's OpenSSH package but since superseded by
ServerAliveInterval. (We're probably stuck with this bit for
compatibility.)
In batch mode, default ServerAliveInterval to five minutes.
Adjust documentation to match and to give some more advice on use of
keepalives.
Author: Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Author: Matthew Vernon <matthew@debian.org>
Author: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Last-Update: 2020-02-21
Patch-Name: keepalive-extensions.patch
Gbp-Pq: Name keepalive-extensions.patch
These options were used as part of Debian's response to CVE-2008-0166.
Nearly six years later, we no longer need to continue carrying the bulk
of that patch, but we do need to avoid failing when the associated
configuration options are still present.
Last-Update: 2014-02-09
Patch-Name: ssh-vulnkey-compat.patch
Gbp-Pq: Name ssh-vulnkey-compat.patch
Rejected upstream due to discomfort with magic usernames; a better approach
will need an SSH protocol change. In the meantime, this came from Debian's
SELinux maintainer, so we'll keep it until we have something better.
Bug: https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1641
Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/394795
Last-Update: 2020-02-21
Patch-Name: selinux-role.patch
Gbp-Pq: Name selinux-role.patch
Support for TCP wrappers was dropped in OpenSSH 6.7. See this message
and thread:
https://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/2014-April/032497.html
It is true that this reduces preauth attack surface in sshd. On the
other hand, this support seems to be quite widely used, and abruptly
dropping it (from the perspective of users who don't read
openssh-unix-dev) could easily cause more serious problems in practice.
It's not entirely clear what the right long-term answer for Debian is,
but it at least probably doesn't involve dropping this feature shortly
before a freeze.
Forwarded: not-needed
Last-Update: 2019-06-05
Patch-Name: restore-tcp-wrappers.patch
Gbp-Pq: Name restore-tcp-wrappers.patch
This patch has been rejected upstream: "None of the OpenSSH developers are
in favour of adding this, and this situation has not changed for several
years. This is not a slight on Simon's patch, which is of fine quality, but
just that a) we don't trust GSSAPI implementations that much and b) we don't
like adding new KEX since they are pre-auth attack surface. This one is
particularly scary, since it requires hooks out to typically root-owned
system resources."
However, quite a lot of people rely on this in Debian, and it's better to
have it merged into the main openssh package rather than having separate
-krb5 packages (as we used to have). It seems to have a generally good
security history.
Origin: other, https://github.com/openssh-gsskex/openssh-gsskex/commits/debian/master
Bug: https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1242
Last-Updated: 2020-02-21
Patch-Name: gssapi.patch
Gbp-Pq: Name gssapi.patch
Colin Watson