Is OpenSSH affected by the OpenSSL Heartbleed bug described in CVE-2014-0160?

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Issue

  • Is OpenSSH affected by the OpenSSL Heartbleed bug described in CVE-2014-0160?
  • Does SSHD need to be restarted after updating openssl for the heartbleed vulnerability?
  • Does the Heartbleed affect SSH?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
    • Specifically openssl-1.0.1e series from openssl-1.0.1e-15 through openssl-1.0.1e-16.el6_5.4

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