HP-UX Secure Shell A.04.70.021, A.04.70.022, and A.04.70.023 Release Notes

HP-UX Secure Shell is a binary package compiled with support for PAM, gssapi, krb5, libwrap,

and no support for Smartcard. HP-UX Secure Shell is built to install and un-install using the

SD-UX utility and includes all required pre-requisites.

2 How do I find out the version of HP-UX Secure Shell I am using? How do I find out whether

I am running HP-UX Secure Shell or the public domain version of OpenSSH?

Use the swlist command to display the name and version number of HP-UX Secure Shell.

For example:

# swlist grep T1471

T1471AA A.04.70 HP-UX Secure Shell

You can also use the what command shown in the example below:

# what /usr/bin/scp

Is libwrap.a linked in HP-UX Secure Shell? Must I only configure hosts.allow and

hosts.deny to use the access control provided by tcp_wrapper?

Yes, thelibwrap.a archive library consisting of tcp_wrapper version 7.6-ipv6.4, is

linked to HP-UX Secure Shell. You only need to configure hosts.allow and hosts.deny

to use the access control provided by tcp_wrapper.

Is HP-UX Secure Shell vulnerable to the reported double free bug in the zlib compression

algorithm documented at http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-07.html?

All versions of HP-UX Secure Shell starting from A.03.10 are built with support for

zlib-1.1.4 or later. So, HP-UX Secure Shell is not affected by the bug described above.

HP-UX Secure Shell versions A.04.70.021, A.04.70.022, and A.04.70.023 are built with zlib

v1.2.3.

5 Is HP-UX Secure Shell vulnerable to the following CERTs:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2003-0147

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2003-0131?

This version of HP-UX Secure Shell is built with OpenSSL-0.9.7m and is not affected by these

two CERTs. The vulnerabilities were fixed in OpenSSL-0.9.7d.

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