OpenSSH: client bug CVE-2016-0777 and CVE-2016-0778

Gordon Messmer gordon.messmer at gmail.com
Fri Jan 15 16:48:34 UTC 2016


On 01/15/2016 03:51 AM, Tim wrote:
> This shows just one advantage of doing fresh installs, instead of
> updates.  Those of use who do fresh installs, won't have old keys from
> prior releases still on our systems.

"Your keys" means your private authentication keys.  The ones in 
~/.ssh.  If you keep or restore your home directory, it doesn't matter 
if you do a fresh install or an upgrade.  I have a hard time imagining 
any significant number of people disposing of all of their data every 
time they update Fedora.


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