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Date:      Mon, 23 Mar 2020 14:06:36 -0700
From:      Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Early heads-up: plan to remove local patches for TCP Wrappers support in sshd
Message-ID:  <51853162-95e6-9345-6d25-3b88657600a9@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAPyFy2Die2tynFM3m3-5zBtWAOpHf-QHY-bE2JY7KKGiP8Tz_Q@mail.gmail.com>
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From: Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org>
To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Message-ID: <51853162-95e6-9345-6d25-3b88657600a9@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: Early heads-up: plan to remove local patches for TCP Wrappers
 support in sshd
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On 2/14/2020 10:18 AM, Ed Maste wrote:
> Upstream OpenSSH-portable removed libwrap support in version 6.7,
> released in October 2014. We've maintained a patch in our tree to
> restore it, but it causes friction on each OpenSSH update and may
> introduce security vulnerabilities not present upstream. It's (past)
> time to remove it.
>=20
> Although the specific deprecation steps aren't yet fleshed out I'm
> sending this as an early notice that I plan to disable libwrap support
> from the base system sshd and that FreeBSD 13 will not support it.
> We'll probably keep the patch in the tree for some time, to support
> MFCs to stable branches; the patch will be removed entirely later on.

FYI if you need this feature the port still has it and is at 8.2 now.


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Regards,
Bryan Drewery


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