OpenSSH vulnerabilities could pose huge threat to businesses everywhere

https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/openssh-vulnerabilities-could-pose-huge-threat-to-businesses-everywhere?

Subtitle: Qualys finds two worrying bugs in OpenSSH

When I checked my personal rigs Debian had already released the patches and my home server had already auto updated itself.

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KomfortablesKissen@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 pts · 1y

Soo, the point is to not enable features that undermine security, like using an FQDN as a key (or source of a key) and to enable features that reduce DoS, like a connection timeout. Does not sound like bugs, just like missing default options.

It's still important to not use the affecting options.

demesisx@infosec.pub · 6 pts · 1y

Hot take: Might be wise to adopt the security by obscurity model and go with an OS that is hardened (ideally, a formally verified microkernel like sel4) or runs in a custom VM/container with almost zero attack surface area.

pHr34kY@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

The single biggest attack vector for SSH is IPv4. Disable it and 99% of issues go away.

purplemonkeymad@programming.dev · 8 pts · 1y

If my isp would support ipv6, that would be great!