[SECURITY] p7zip: CVE-2015-1038

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Feb  9 14:48, Tony Kelman wrote:
> >> I don't have anything for sourceware or cygwin.com in
> >> ~/.ssh/known_hosts, should I?
> >
> > In theory, yes. It's usually collected the first time you connect to
> > the host. The idea is to have a known key to compare the host against
> > to disallow MITM attacks.
> 
> Hm okay, what's the best way to get this fixed then? Generate new
> ssh keys? Or someone else can NMU this since it's a security issue,
> my cygport including the new patch is at
> https://github.com/tkelman/cygwin-p7zip

I'm not sure in fact.  The error you got was related to the host keys,
not the user keys.  Changing the keys would probably not help, though
we can try that, of course.  What means "NMU"?


Corinna

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