From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: HEADSUP: OpenSSH 6.7 drops tcpwrapper support
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 19:10:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140819191048.GS2280@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53F3973F.FFD98255@boland.nl>
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On Aug 19 20:28, D. Boland wrote:
> Hi Corinna,
>
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > Just a HEADSUP to all of you actively using the tcp_wrappers/libwrap
> > functionality in sshd:
> >
> > Starting with the next OpenSSH version 6.7, which will be released soon,
> > upstream removed support for tcp_wrappers/libwrap from the sources.
> >
> > While that's bad from a compatibility point of view, the upstream
> > developers are adamant about this change for security reasons.
>
> Can you point me to any documentation about this?
No, sorry. It has been discussed briefly on the openssh-unix-dev
developer list and it was referred to as old, unmaintained, dangerous
code which calls setjmp pretty much first thing in the library code.
Corinna
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Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-19 19:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-18 11:53 Corinna Vinschen
2014-08-19 18:23 ` D. Boland
2014-08-19 19:10 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2014-08-19 19:05 ` Andrey Repin
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