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Bug 642927

Summary:	Add relro flag to sshd
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Jan F. Chadima <jchadima>
Component:	openssh	Assignee:	Jan F. Chadima <jchadima>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	6.1	CC:	mvadkert, sgrubb
Target Milestone:	rc
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	openssh-5.3p1-40.el6	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2011-05-19 13:30:34 UTC	Type:	---
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Description Jan F. Chadima 2010-10-14 08:25:37 UTC

Description of problem:
the sshd daemon is not linked with RELRO flag

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
openssh-5.3p1-20.el6

Comment 7 Eduard Benes 2011-02-24 10:02:20 UTC

*** Bug 679469 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 Miroslav Vadkerti 2011-03-01 16:03:17 UTC

One file still has no RELRO (and STACK CANARY and pie!
/usr/libexec/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass

RELRO           STACK CANARY      NX            PIE                     FILE
No RELRO        No canary found   NX enabled    No PIE                  /usr/libexec/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass

Is this expected please??

Comment 10 Steve Grubb 2011-03-01 16:34:11 UTC

This is OK. We are mainly after long running or network facing programs that have root/elevated privs. So, that would be the daemon and any setuid programs that may exist.

Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2011-05-19 13:30:34 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0598.html