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Add an option to disable the dynamic host key policy.

This mitigates CVE-2020-14002: if you're in the habit of clicking OK
to unknown host keys (the TOFU policy - trust on first use), then an
active attacker looking to exploit that policy to substitute their own
host key in your first connection to a server can use the host key
algorithm order in your KEXINIT to (not wholly reliably) detect
whether you have a key already stored for this host, and if so, abort
their attack to avoid giving themself away.

However, for users who _don't_ use the TOFU policy and instead check
new host keys out of band, the dynamic policy is more useful. So it's
provided as a configurable option.
This commit is contained in:
Simon Tatham
2020-06-11 15:57:18 +01:00
parent 555aabebde
commit 08f1e2a506
6 changed files with 35 additions and 4 deletions

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@ -1256,6 +1256,7 @@ NORETURN void cleanup_exit(int);
X(BOOL, NONE, compression) \
X(INT, INT, ssh_kexlist) \
X(INT, INT, ssh_hklist) \
X(BOOL, NONE, ssh_prefer_known_hostkeys) \
X(INT, NONE, ssh_rekey_time) /* in minutes */ \
X(STR, NONE, ssh_rekey_data) /* string encoding e.g. "100K", "2M", "1G" */ \
X(BOOL, NONE, tryagent) \