The Heartbleed bug is in the Heartbeat function of TSL (a second keep
alive). OpenSSL does not use TLS for transport security, it uses its
own Protokoll for security.

2014-04-10 12:51 GMT+02:00 Nilesh Govindrajan <m...@nileshgr.com>:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Matthew Finkel
> <matthew.fin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 05:53:44PM +0800, J?n Zahornadsk? wrote:
>>> On 04/10/2014 05:03 PM, Adam Carter wrote:
>>> >
>>> >     What surprises me here is OpenSSH. It's not supposed to use OpenSSL
>>> >     but Debian update process suggests to restart it after updating
>>> >     OpenSSL to a fixed version. Is it an overkill on their part? It
>>> >     might confuse admins.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > adam@proxy ~ $ ldd /usr/sbin/sshd
>>> >     linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fffb068e000)
>>> >     libwrap.so.0 => /lib64/libwrap.so.0 (0x00007f68db1e6000)
>>> >     libpam.so.0 => /lib64/libpam.so.0 (0x00007f68dafd8000)
>>> >     libcrypto.so.1.0.0 => /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.1.0.0 
>>> > (0x00007f68dabf5000)
>>> >     libutil.so.1 => /lib64/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f68da9f2000)
>>> >     libz.so.1 => /lib64/libz.so.1 (0x00007f68da7db000)
>>> >     libcrypt.so.1 => /lib64/libcrypt.so.1 (0x00007f68da5a4000)
>>> >     libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f68da387000)
>>> >     libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007f68d9fd7000)
>>> >     libgcc_s.so.1 =>
>>> > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.8.2/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f68d9dc0000)
>>> >     libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f68d9bbc000)
>>> >     /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f68db3f1000)
>>> > adam@proxy ~ $ qfile /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.1.0.0
>>> > dev-libs/openssl (/usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.1.0.0)
>>> > adam@proxy ~ $
>>> >
>>> > So OpenSSH clearly IS using OpenSSL, and you need to restart sshd after
>>> > upgrading OpenSSL.
>>>
>>> As far as I know, it doesn't use it for the communication itself, just
>>> some key generations, so it shouldn't be affected by this bug. But I
>>> guess better safe than sorry...
>>>
>>
>> Right. heartbleed does not directly affect openssh, but openssh uses
>> openssl and it's good practice to keep the shared libraries on-disk and
>> the shared libraries in-memory in sync.
>>
>
>
> How is OpenSSH not affected?
>



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