[HN Gopher] Outdated, vulnerable open source component(s) shippe...
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       Outdated, vulnerable open source component(s) shipped with Windows
       10&11
        
       Author : CTOSian
       Score  : 58 points
       Date   : 2021-10-19 20:19 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (seclists.org)
        
       | FounderBurr wrote:
       | No commercial vendor is going to ship bleeding edge code with a
       | promise to support it.
        
       | Factorium wrote:
       | Windows should just become a Linux Distro already.
        
         | [deleted]
        
       | yabones wrote:
       | While it's not good to ship outdated client libraries & software,
       | it would be much worse to distribute an old OpenSSH release...
       | Can anybody with a Windows 10/11 box check the version they
       | supply? That, to me, would be a much more serious problem.
        
         | joenathanone wrote:
         | SSH -V on Windows 11 returns
         | 
         | >OpenSSH_for_Windows_8.1p1, LibreSSL 3.0.2
        
           | JDW1023 wrote:
           | According to https://www.libressl.org/releases.html, LibreSSL
           | 3.0.2 was released on October 19th, 2019. So it's exactly two
           | years out of date.
           | 
           | edit: on my windows 10 21H1, the timestamp in COFF/File
           | header for ssh.exe shows '1584509394' (Wed, 18 Mar 2020
           | 05:29:54 UTC).
        
           | 1over137 wrote:
           | That LibreSSL is newer than even the latest macOS 12 Monterey
           | beta: OpenSSH_8.6p1, LibreSSL 2.8.3
        
         | [deleted]
        
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