On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 8:20 AM, Michael H <michael at wemoto.com> wrote: > Probably worth a read... > http://www.openssh.com/txt/release-7.1p2 For the sake of conversation... Reading the Qualys security advisory is interesting as well, and I tend to think the vulnerability is not severe for a number of reasons: https://www.qualys.com/2016/01/14/cve-2016-0777-cve-2016-0778/openssh-cve-2016-0777-cve-2016-0778.txt First, because versions 5.4 - 5.6 were not vulnerable to the information leak on GNU/Linux, though they were on BSD systems. Second, because later versions may have been able to leak private keys, but only incomplete copies of them. Last, because encrypted keys could only be leaked in their encrypted form, and keys used with an ssh-agent were not vulnerable to leaking at all. The buffer overflow vulnerability seems more severe, but only if you're using a bastion host which is compromised. The vulnerability can only be triggered when using ProxyCommand. The buffer overflow also is not exploitable on OpenSSH 6.8, due to a bug introduced in that version.