Re: ssh in Debian - version unclear
Norman Schmidt <Norman.Schmidt@chemie.stud.uni-erlangen.de> writes:
> I am using the standard ssh package with Potato. Its version is
> 1.2.3-9.4.
>
> The scanssh tool shows the version string to be SSH-1.5-OpenSSH-1.2.3.
>
> The newest version of OpenSSH is 3.0.2p1, according to the OpenSSH
> website.
>
> I am wondering to which official OpenSSH release the above version
> translates, in order to find out against which exploits it may be
> vulnerable (the main servers of some institutes of mna university were
> hacket during the christmas holidays - and I don´t want to fall prey to
> that, too...).
Hi. What you have is based on official ("upstream") version 1.2.3,
but has had all known security vulnerabilities patched, so you should
be okay.
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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)
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