This update for openssh provides the following fixes :

Security issues fixed :

CVE-2017-15906: Stricter checking of operations in read-only mode in sftp server (bsc#1065000).

CVE-2016-10012: Remove pre-auth compression support from the server to prevent possible cryptographic attacks (bsc#1016370).

CVE-2008-1483: Refine handling of sockets for X11 forwarding to remove reintroduced CVE-2008-1483 (bsc#1069509).

CVE-2016-10708: Prevent DoS due to crashes caused by out-of-sequence NEWKEYS message (bsc#1076957).

Bug fixes: bsc#1017099: Enable case-insensitive hostname matching.

bsc#1023275: Add a new switch for printing diagnostic messages in sftp client's batch mode.

bsc#1048367: systemd integration to work around various race conditions.

bsc#1053972: Remove duplicate KEX method.

bsc#1092582: Add missing piece of systemd integration.

Remove the limit on the amount of tasks sshd can run.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : openssh (SUSE-SU-2018:2685-1)

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