This update for OpenSSH fixes three security issues.
These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2016-3115: Sanitise input for xauth(1) (bsc#970632) - CVE-2016-1908: Prevent X11 SECURITY circumvention when forwarding X11 connections (bsc#962313) - CVE-2015-8325: Ignore PAM environment when using login (bsc#975865)
These non-security issues were fixed: - Fix help output of sftp (bsc#945493) - Restarting openssh with openssh-fips installed was not working correctly (bsc#945484) - Fix crashes when /proc is not available in the chroot (bsc#947458) - Correctly parse GSSAPI KEX algorithms (bsc#961368) - More verbose FIPS mode/CC related documentation in README.FIPS (bsc#965576, bsc#960414) - Fix PRNG re-seeding (bsc#960414, bsc#729190) - Disable DH parameters under 2048 bits by default and allow lowering the limit back to the RFC 4419 specified minimum through an option (bsc#932483, bsc#948902)