Dropbear 2022.83

[Matt Johnston]

Hi all,

Dropbear 2022.83 is now available. It fixes a few
regressions in 2022.82, and adds a few new features from
various contributors. Thanks to everyone who helped.
As usual downloads are at

https://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html
or
https://dropbear.nl/mirror/dropbear.html

Cheers,
Matt



2022.83 - 14 November 2022

Features and Changes:
  Note >> for compatibility/configuration changes

- >> Disable DROPBEAR_DSS by default
  It is only 1024 bit and uses sha1, most distros disable it by default already.

- Added DROPBEAR_RSA_SHA1 option to allow disabling sha1 rsa signatures.
  >> RSA with sha1 will be disabled in a future release (rsa keys will continue
  to work OK, with sha256 signatures used instead).

- Add option for requiring both password and pubkey (-t)
  Patch from Jackkal

- Add 'no-touch-required' and 'verify-required' options for sk keys
  Patch from Egor Duda

- >> DROPBEAR_SK_KEYS config option now replaces separate DROPBEAR_SK_ECDSA
  and DROPBEAR_SK_ED25519 options.

- Add 'permitopen' option for authorized_keys to restrict forwarded ports
  Patch from Tuomas Haikarainen

- >> Added LTM_CFLAGS configure argument to set flags for building
  bundled libtommath. This also restores the previous arguments used
  in 2020.81 (-O3 -funroll-loops). That gives a big speedup for RSA
  key generation, which regressed in 2022.82.
  There is a tradeoff with code size, so -Os can be used if required.
  https://github.com/mkj/dropbear/issues/174
  Reported by David Bernard

- Add '-z' flag to disable setting QoS traffic class. This may be necessary
  to work with broken networks or network drivers, exposed after changes to use
  AF21 in 2022.82
  https://github.com/mkj/dropbear/issues/193
  Reported by yuhongwei380, patch from Petr Štetiar

- Allow overriding user shells with COMPAT_USER_SHELLS
  Based on a patch from Matt Robinson

- Improve permission error message
  Patch from k-kurematsu

- >> Remove HMAC_MD5 entirely

Regression fixes from 2022.82:

- Fix X11 build

- Fix build warning

- Fix compilation when disabling pubkey authentication
  Patch from MaxMougg

- Fix MAX_UNAUTH_CLIENTS regression
  Reported by ptpt52

- Avoid using slower prime testing in bundled libtomcrypt when DSS is disabled
  https://github.com/mkj/dropbear/issues/174
  Suggested by Steffen Jaeckel

- Fix Dropbear plugin support
  https://github.com/mkj/dropbear/issues/194
  Reported by Struan Bartlett

Other fixes:

- Fix long standing incorrect compression size check. Dropbear
  (client or server) would erroneously exit with
  "bad packet, oversized decompressed"
  when receiving a compressed packet of exactly the maximum size.

- Fix missing setsid() removed in 2020.79
  https://github.com/mkj/dropbear/issues/180
  Reported and debugged by m5jt and David Bernard

- Try keyboard-interactive auth before password, in dbclient.
  This was unintentionally changed back in 2013
  https://github.com/mkj/dropbear/pull/190
  Patch from Michele Giacomoli

- Drain the terminal when reading the fingerprint confirmation response
  https://github.com/mkj/dropbear/pull/191
  Patch from Michele Giacomoli

- Fix utx wtmp variable typo. This has been wrong for a long time but
  only recently became a problem when wtmp was detected.
  https://github.com/mkj/dropbear/pull/189
  Patch from Michele Giacomoli

- Improve configure test for hardening options.
  Fixes building on AIX
  https://github.com/mkj/dropbear/issues/158

- Fix debian/dropbear.init newline
  From wulei-student

Infrastructure:

- Test off-by-default compile options

- Set -Wundef to catch typos in #if statements