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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.pt/post/5733711
A severe vulnerability in OpenSSH, dubbed “regreSSHion” (CVE-2024-6387), has been discovered by the Qualys Threat Research Unit, potentially exposing
Some package managers have a command to see if anything is in need of restart. Zypper has ps -s for example. I’d restart to be sure though.
My server tells me a restart would be required because of:
Does that have anything to do with the SSH package?
It sounds like it’s the kernel but whether it has anything to do with ssh, I really don’t know. Sometimes parts work together in surprising ways, as I learned with the recent sshd/systemd/xz exploit.
You might be fine and this was the most alarming exploit since it’s very inconvenient, but personally I’d restart just to be sure.