Regenerate your .ssh/id_rsa key Debian users
Whoa, this security bug exposed by Luciano Bello (Ola!) is one of the worst I’ve ever seen.
Time to regenerate your key with the updated openssl 0.9.8c packages.
This seems to be Debian specific patch that caused this bug.
Further instructions should be posted on a special Debian key rollover page and the Debian wiki.
Update: key rollover is hard. :/ `ssh-vulnkey` was missing for awhile and only recent updates to openssh-server seem to regenerate the keys for me.
May 13th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
[...] Just read this and the security release. There is a checker provided in the security release note, but at any rate, your ssh key was probably generated incorrectly with respect to random time (mine were). Joy. [...]
May 13th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
Hola ;)
May 13th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
If your SSH private key is old enough that it was generated before this bug was introduced, then it might be time to update it anyway.
May 14th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
Debian has posted a more complete instruction set for key regeneration..
http://wiki.debian.org/SSLkeys
this affects more than just SSH keys, quite along list actually.
May 17th, 2008 at 9:42 am
Well at least they didn’t leave their laptops unattended ;)