* Get certdata.txt directly from the NSS Mercurial repository, rather
than from the Mozilla Firefox repository which imports it from NSS at
irregular intervals.
* Instead of always fetching the latest certdata.txt, fetch a specific
version. For this commit, we set this to the version that was last
imported in May 2025.
* Add a refrence to the MPL to the generated files.
* Regenerate with latest OpenSSL. This is purely cosmetic; mostly, the
certificate names now contain less unnecessary whitespace and some
elements are quoted.
MFC after: 1 week
Reviewed by: michaelo, kevans
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D56620
(cherry picked from commit ce33d6396a)
Until now, the untrusted directory has been maintained manually. Modify
the script used to maintain the trusted directory so it can handle both.
While here, clean it up a bit.
MFC after: 1 week
Reviewed by: mandree, markj
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D51774
(cherry picked from commit b88b0bb784)
Highlights from the release notes are reproduced below. Bug fixes and
improvements that were previously merged into FreeBSD have been elided.
See the upstream release notes for full details of the 9.9p1 release
(https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html).
---
Future deprecation notice
=========================
OpenSSH plans to remove support for the DSA signature algorithm in
early 2025.
Potentially-incompatible changes
--------------------------------
* ssh(1): remove support for pre-authentication compression.
* ssh(1), sshd(8): processing of the arguments to the "Match"
configuration directive now follows more shell-like rules for
quoted strings, including allowing nested quotes and \-escaped
characters.
New features
------------
* ssh(1), sshd(8): add support for a new hybrid post-quantum key
exchange based on the FIPS 203 Module-Lattice Key Enapsulation
mechanism (ML-KEM) combined with X25519 ECDH as described by
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-kampanakis-curdle-ssh-pq-ke-03
This algorithm "mlkem768x25519-sha256" is available by default.
* ssh(1), sshd(8), ssh-agent(1): prevent private keys from being
included in core dump files for most of their lifespans. This is
in addition to pre-existing controls in ssh-agent(1) and sshd(8)
that prevented coredumps. This feature is supported on OpenBSD,
Linux and FreeBSD.
* All: convert key handling to use the libcrypto EVP_PKEY API, with
the exception of DSA.
Bugfixes
--------
* sshd(8): do not apply authorized_keys options when signature
verification fails. Prevents more restrictive key options being
incorrectly applied to subsequent keys in authorized_keys. bz3733
* ssh-keygen(1): include pathname in some of ssh-keygen's passphrase
prompts. Helps the user know what's going on when ssh-keygen is
invoked via other tools. Requested in GHPR503
* ssh(1), ssh-add(1): make parsing user@host consistently look for
the last '@' in the string rather than the first. This makes it
possible to more consistently use usernames that contain '@'
characters.
* ssh(1), sshd(8): be more strict in parsing key type names. Only
allow short names (e.g "rsa") in user-interface code and require
full SSH protocol names (e.g. "ssh-rsa") everywhere else. bz3725
* ssh-keygen(1): clarify that ed25519 is the default key type
generated and clarify that rsa-sha2-512 is the default signature
scheme when RSA is in use. GHPR505
---
Reviewed by: jlduran (build infrastructure)
Reviewed by: cy (build infrastructure)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D48947
(cherry picked from commit 3d9fd9fcb4)
Approved by: re (accelerated MFC)
(cherry picked from commit 802386cd37)
Highlights from the release notes are reproduced below. Some security
and bug fixes were previously merged into FreeBSD and have been elided.
See the upstream release notes for full details
(https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html).
---
Future deprecation notice
=========================
OpenSSH plans to remove support for the DSA signature algorithm in
early 2025.
Potentially-incompatible changes
--------------------------------
* sshd(8): the server will now block client addresses that
repeatedly fail authentication, repeatedly connect without ever
completing authentication or that crash the server. See the
discussion of PerSourcePenalties below for more information.
Operators of servers that accept connections from many users, or
servers that accept connections from addresses behind NAT or
proxies may need to consider these settings.
* sshd(8): the server has been split into a listener binary, sshd(8),
and a per-session binary "sshd-session". This allows for a much
smaller listener binary, as it no longer needs to support the SSH
protocol. As part of this work, support for disabling privilege
separation (which previously required code changes to disable) and
disabling re-execution of sshd(8) has been removed. Further
separation of sshd-session into additional, minimal binaries is
planned for the future.
* sshd(8): several log messages have changed. In particular, some
log messages will be tagged with as originating from a process
named "sshd-session" rather than "sshd".
* ssh-keyscan(1): this tool previously emitted comment lines
containing the hostname and SSH protocol banner to standard error.
This release now emits them to standard output, but adds a new
"-q" flag to silence them altogether.
* sshd(8): (portable OpenSSH only) sshd will no longer use argv[0]
as the PAM service name. A new "PAMServiceName" sshd_config(5)
directive allows selecting the service name at runtime. This
defaults to "sshd". bz2101
New features
------------
* sshd(8): sshd(8) will now penalise client addresses that, for various
reasons, do not successfully complete authentication. This feature is
controlled by a new sshd_config(5) PerSourcePenalties option and is
on by default.
* ssh(8): allow the HostkeyAlgorithms directive to disable the
implicit fallback from certificate host key to plain host keys.
Portability
-----------
* sshd(8): expose SSH_AUTH_INFO_0 always to PAM auth modules
unconditionally. The previous behaviour was to expose it only when
particular authentication methods were in use.
* ssh(1), ssh-agent(8): allow the presence of the WAYLAND_DISPLAY
environment variable to enable SSH_ASKPASS, similarly to the X11
DISPLAY environment variable. GHPR479
---
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D48914
(cherry picked from commit 0fdf8fae8b)
(cherry picked from commit b4bb480ae9)
(cherry picked from commit e95979047a)
(cherry picked from commit dcb4ae528d)
Approved by: re (accelerated MFC)
(cherry picked from commit ff2fd01609)
It is used only by scp and sftp, and already included directly in their
Makefiles. It does not belong in libssh.
Fixes: d8b043c8d4 ("Update for 3.6.1p1; also remove Kerberos IV shims.")
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D48871
(cherry picked from commit c0af329525)
(cherry picked from commit 8a02eb2c1e)
XAUTH_PATH is normally set (in the upstream build infrastructure) in
config.h. We previously set it in ssh and sshd's Makefiles if LOCALBASE
is set, and over time have sometimes also defined it in config.h.
Leave it unset in config.h and move the CFLAGS logic to to ssh.mk so
that it will be set when building all ssh libraries and programs but
still be set by LOCALBASE.
Reviewed by: jlduran
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D48907
(cherry picked from commit a63701848f)
(cherry picked from commit 73dd56ffcd)
libecc is not intended to be general use, other applications should
really be using openssl. pkg(7) uses libecc to align with the pkg(8)
project and its goals. This will be used in the upcoming support for
ECC in pkg(7).
Reviewed by: emaste
(cherry picked from commit 05427f4639)
From the release notes,
> This release contains a number of security fixes, some small features
> and bugfixes.
The most significant change in 9.6p1 is a set of fixes for a newly-
discovered weakness in the SSH transport protocol. The fix was already
merged into FreeBSD and released as FreeBSD-SA-23:19.openssh.
Full release notes at https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-9.6
Relnotes: Yes
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
(cherry picked from commit 069ac18495)
(cherry picked from commit a25789646d)
Summary:
- Six (6) new roots
- Four (4) distrusted roots
Note that this was intentionally generated with OpenSSL 1.1.1 to avoid
mixing updates and non-functional changes -- there will be some churn
with OpenSSL 3. The next commit will update the current batch of
trusted certs with the format OpenSSL 3 produces, which I've tested
against OpenSSL 1.1.1 to be sure that that doesn't hurt us in older
branches.
This MFC also regenerates all of the trusted certs with OpenSSL 3 to
reduce the diff of future ENs -- this update has no existing certs
modified, so it's the perfect time.
(cherry picked from commit 65fd80909e)
(cherry picked from commit 8ed0ecf802)
With this change, we'll drop the "with $FreeBSD$" lines from trusted/
certs in the next update. untrusted/ will need to be done manually, but
I'll likely just do them all manually, commit, then run the script and
commit any legitimate updates after confirming the output matches what
I did manually.
Reported by: imp
Reviewed by: imp
(cherry picked from commit bbc8585ef5)
The assembly source files do not contain GNU-stack annotations, so
ld.bfd defaults to using an executable stack.
(cherry picked from commit 99df55bbb7)
This release fixes a number of security bugs and has minor new
features and bug fixes. Security fixes, from the release notes
(https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-9.3):
This release contains fixes for a security problem and a memory
safety problem. The memory safety problem is not believed to be
exploitable, but we report most network-reachable memory faults as
security bugs.
* ssh-add(1): when adding smartcard keys to ssh-agent(1) with the
per-hop destination constraints (ssh-add -h ...) added in OpenSSH
8.9, a logic error prevented the constraints from being
communicated to the agent. This resulted in the keys being added
without constraints. The common cases of non-smartcard keys and
keys without destination constraints are unaffected. This problem
was reported by Luci Stanescu.
* ssh(1): Portable OpenSSH provides an implementation of the
getrrsetbyname(3) function if the standard library does not
provide it, for use by the VerifyHostKeyDNS feature. A
specifically crafted DNS response could cause this function to
perform an out-of-bounds read of adjacent stack data, but this
condition does not appear to be exploitable beyond denial-of-
service to the ssh(1) client.
The getrrsetbyname(3) replacement is only included if the system's
standard library lacks this function and portable OpenSSH was not
compiled with the ldns library (--with-ldns). getrrsetbyname(3) is
only invoked if using VerifyHostKeyDNS to fetch SSHFP records. This
problem was found by the Coverity static analyzer.
Accelerated MFC to prepare for inclusion in 13.2-RELEASE.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
(cherry picked from commit 4d3fc8b057)
Release notes are available at https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-9.2
OpenSSH 9.2 contains fixes for two security problems and a memory safety
problem. The memory safety problem is not believed to be exploitable.
These fixes have already been committed to OpenSSH 9.1 in FreeBSD.
Some other notable items from the release notes:
* ssh(1): add a new EnableEscapeCommandline ssh_config(5) option that
controls whether the client-side ~C escape sequence that provides a
command-line is available. Among other things, the ~C command-line
could be used to add additional port-forwards at runtime.
* sshd(8): add support for channel inactivity timeouts via a new
sshd_config(5) ChannelTimeout directive. This allows channels that
have not seen traffic in a configurable interval to be
automatically closed. Different timeouts may be applied to session,
X11, agent and TCP forwarding channels.
* sshd(8): add a sshd_config UnusedConnectionTimeout option to
terminate client connections that have no open channels for a
length of time. This complements the ChannelTimeout option above.
* sshd(8): add a -V (version) option to sshd like the ssh client has.
* scp(1), sftp(1): add a -X option to both scp(1) and sftp(1) to
allow control over some SFTP protocol parameters: the copy buffer
length and the number of in-flight requests, both of which are used
during upload/download. Previously these could be controlled in
sftp(1) only. This makes them available in both SFTP protocol
clients using the same option character sequence.
* ssh-keyscan(1): allow scanning of complete CIDR address ranges,
e.g. "ssh-keyscan 192.168.0.0/24". If a CIDR range is passed, then
it will be expanded to all possible addresses in the range
including the all-0s and all-1s addresses. bz#976
* ssh(1): support dynamic remote port forwarding in escape
command-line's -R processing. bz#3499
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
(cherry picked from commit f374ba41f5)
This file is full of strict aliasing violations. Previously it was only
optimised in ways that broke the code by CHERI LLVM, but now it appears
that the in-tree LLVM also breaks it for RISC-V, resulting in broken
ECDSA signature validation with error messages like the following:
root@unmatched:/usr/src # ssh-keygen -l -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key
/etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key is not a key file.
root@unmatched:/usr/src # git fetch
fatal: unable to access 'https://git.FreeBSD.org/src.git/': error:1012606B:elliptic curve routines:EC_POINT_set_affine_coordinates:point is not on curve
Reviewed by: dim, jkim
Obtained from: CheriBSD
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D35885
(cherry picked from commit 3b41ae3212)
Release notes are available at https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-9.1
9.1 contains fixes for three minor memory safety problems; these have
lready been merged to the copy of OpenSSH 9.0 that is in the FreeBSD base
system.
Some highlights copied from the release notes:
Potentially-incompatible changes
--------------------------------
* ssh(1), sshd(8): SetEnv directives in ssh_config and sshd_config
are now first-match-wins to match other directives. Previously
if an environment variable was multiply specified the last set
value would have been used. bz3438
* ssh-keygen(8): ssh-keygen -A (generate all default host key types)
will no longer generate DSA keys, as these are insecure and have
not been used by default for some years.
New features
------------
* ssh(1), sshd(8): add a RequiredRSASize directive to set a minimum
RSA key length. Keys below this length will be ignored for user
authentication and for host authentication in sshd(8).
* sftp-server(8): add a "[email protected]" extension
request that allows the client to obtain user/group names that
correspond to a set of uids/gids.
* sftp(1): use "[email protected]" sftp-server
extension (when available) to fill in user/group names for
directory listings.
* sftp-server(8): support the "home-directory" extension request
defined in draft-ietf-secsh-filexfer-extensions-00. This overlaps
a bit with the existing "[email protected]", but some other
clients support it.
* ssh-keygen(1), sshd(8): allow certificate validity intervals,
sshsig verification times and authorized_keys expiry-time options
to accept dates in the UTC time zone in addition to the default
of interpreting them in the system time zone. YYYYMMDD and
YYMMDDHHMM[SS] dates/times will be interpreted as UTC if suffixed
with a 'Z' character.
Also allow certificate validity intervals to be specified in raw
seconds-since-epoch as hex value, e.g. -V 0x1234:0x4567890. This
is intended for use by regress tests and other tools that call
ssh-keygen as part of a CA workflow. bz3468
* sftp(1): allow arguments to the sftp -D option, e.g. sftp -D
"/usr/libexec/sftp-server -el debug3"
* ssh-keygen(1): allow the existing -U (use agent) flag to work
with "-Y sign" operations, where it will be interpreted to require
that the private keys is hosted in an agent; bz3429
MFC after: 2 weeks
Relnotes: Yes
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
(cherry picked from commit 38a52bd3b5)
most programs in ports are looking for .pc files in order to get the
necessary information on how to compile and link against openssl.
The ports now also has a way to hide or force a path for pkgconf.
Providing .pc files along with openssl in base will allow (once all
the supported version of FreeBSD has it) so improve the framework to
deal with openssl in base vs openssl in ports (and libressl)
This will also greatly reduce the number of patches necessary to
workaround the build systems which only knows how to detect where
openssl is installed via pkgconf.
PR: 266051
MFC After: 3 weeks
Reviewed by: jkim, delphij
Exp-run by: antoine
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D36360
(cherry picked from commit b323fa85f1)
Release notes are available at https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-8.9
Some highlights:
* ssh(1), sshd(8), ssh-add(1), ssh-agent(1): add a system for
restricting forwarding and use of keys added to ssh-agent(1)
* ssh(1), sshd(8): add the [email protected] hybrid
ECDH/x25519 + Streamlined NTRU Prime post-quantum KEX to the
default KEXAlgorithms list (after the ECDH methods but before the
prime-group DH ones). The next release of OpenSSH is likely to
make this key exchange the default method.
* sshd(8), portable OpenSSH only: this release removes in-built
support for MD5-hashed passwords. If you require these on your
system then we recommend linking against libxcrypt or similar.
Future deprecation notice
=========================
A near-future release of OpenSSH will switch scp(1) from using the
legacy scp/rcp protocol to using SFTP by default.
Legacy scp/rcp performs wildcard expansion of remote filenames (e.g.
"scp host:* .") through the remote shell. This has the side effect of
requiring double quoting of shell meta-characters in file names
included on scp(1) command-lines, otherwise they could be interpreted
as shell commands on the remote side.
MFC after: 1 month
Relnotes: Yes
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
(cherry picked from commit 1323ec5712)
(cherry picked from commit 58def461e2)
An upcoming OpenSSH update has multiple config.h settings that change
depending on whether builtin security key support is enabled. Prepare
for this by moving ENABLE_SK_INTERNAL to a new sk_config.h header
(similar to the approach used for optional krb5 support) and optionally
including that, instead of defining the macro directly from CFLAGS.
Reviewed by: kevans
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D34407
(cherry picked from commit 92ef98b8fa)
Description of FIDO/U2F support (from OpenSSH 8.2 release notes,
https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-8.2):
This release adds support for FIDO/U2F hardware authenticators to
OpenSSH. U2F/FIDO are open standards for inexpensive two-factor
authentication hardware that are widely used for website
authentication. In OpenSSH FIDO devices are supported by new public
key types "ecdsa-sk" and "ed25519-sk", along with corresponding
certificate types.
ssh-keygen(1) may be used to generate a FIDO token-backed key, after
which they may be used much like any other key type supported by
OpenSSH, so long as the hardware token is attached when the keys are
used. FIDO tokens also generally require the user explicitly
authorise operations by touching or tapping them.
Generating a FIDO key requires the token be attached, and will
usually require the user tap the token to confirm the operation:
$ ssh-keygen -t ecdsa-sk -f ~/.ssh/id_ecdsa_sk
Generating public/private ecdsa-sk key pair.
You may need to touch your security key to authorize key generation.
Enter file in which to save the key (/home/djm/.ssh/id_ecdsa_sk):
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
Enter same passphrase again:
Your identification has been saved in /home/djm/.ssh/id_ecdsa_sk
Your public key has been saved in /home/djm/.ssh/id_ecdsa_sk.pub
This will yield a public and private key-pair. The private key file
should be useless to an attacker who does not have access to the
physical token. After generation, this key may be used like any
other supported key in OpenSSH and may be listed in authorized_keys,
added to ssh-agent(1), etc. The only additional stipulation is that
the FIDO token that the key belongs to must be attached when the key
is used.
To enable FIDO/U2F support, this change regenerates ssh_namespace.h,
adds ssh-sk-helper, and sets ENABLE_SK_INTERNAL (unless building
WITHOUT_USB).
devd integration is not included in this change, and is under
investigation for the base system. In the interim the security/u2f-devd
port can be installed to provide appropriate devd rules.
Reviewed by: delphij, kevans
Relnotes: Yes
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D32509
(cherry picked from commit e9a994639b)
Some notable changes, from upstream's release notes:
- sshd(8): Remove support for obsolete "host/port" syntax.
- ssh(1): When prompting whether to record a new host key, accept the key
fingerprint as a synonym for "yes".
- ssh-keygen(1): when acting as a CA and signing certificates with an RSA
key, default to using the rsa-sha2-512 signature algorithm.
- ssh(1), sshd(8), ssh-keygen(1): this release removes the "ssh-rsa"
(RSA/SHA1) algorithm from those accepted for certificate signatures.
- ssh-sk-helper(8): this is a new binary. It is used by the FIDO/U2F
support to provide address-space isolation for token middleware
libraries (including the internal one).
- ssh(1): this release enables UpdateHostkeys by default subject to some
conservative preconditions.
- scp(1): this release changes the behaviour of remote to remote copies
(e.g. "scp host-a:/path host-b:") to transfer through the local host
by default.
- scp(1): experimental support for transfers using the SFTP protocol as
a replacement for the venerable SCP/RCP protocol that it has
traditionally used.
Additional integration work is needed to support FIDO/U2F in the base
system.
Deprecation Notice
------------------
OpenSSH will disable the ssh-rsa signature scheme by default in the
next release.
Reviewed by: imp
MFC after: 1 month
Relnotes: Yes
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D29985
(cherry picked from commit 19261079b7)
(cherry picked from commit f448c3ed4a)
(cherry picked from commit 1f290c707a)
(cherry picked from commit 0f9bafdfc3)
(cherry picked from commit adb56e58e8)
(cherry picked from commit 576b58108c)
(cherry picked from commit 1c99af1ebe)
(cherry picked from commit 87152f3405)
(cherry picked from commit 172fa4aa75)
This moves SSHDIR and ssh_namespace.h handling to a common location,
and will simplify future work such as adding U2F support (D32509).
Reviewed by: kevans
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D32808
(cherry picked from commit 9d63429fa1)
This adds a note in all existing certs that they are explicitly trusted
for server auth, and also:
- Seven (7) added
- Nineteen (19) removed
(cherry picked from commit 446169e0b6)
(cherry picked from commit 3016c5c2bf)
(cherry picked from commit fac832b271)
(cherry picked from commit 76461921da)
Our current processor was identified as trusting cert not explicitly
marked for SERVER_AUTH, as well as certs that were tagged with
DISTRUST_AFTER.
Update the script to handle both scenarios. This patch was originally
authored by mandree@ for ports, and it was subsequently ported to base
caroot.
(cherry picked from commit c3510c941c)
Dag-Erling Smørgrav