How to install OpenSSH 8.7 or later on 20.04.6 LTS

Question

I need to upgrade the version of OpenSSH on my Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS to OpenSSH 8.7 or later. After running this:

sudo apt upgrade 
sudo apt install openssh-server

It returns;

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
openssh-server is already the newest version (1:8.2p1-4ubuntu0.11).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Running

ssh -V

Returns

OpenSSH_8.2p1 Ubuntu-4ubuntu0.11, OpenSSL 1.1.1f  31 Mar 2020

How do I upgrade it?

Does this answer your question? Why don't the Ubuntu repositories have the latest versions of software? — guiverc, Mar 22 '24 at 01:50
No that does not help. I understand why but I need to install that version for a security audit. I want to know how to do it — Xaphann, Mar 22 '24 at 01:59
Your security audit is suspect. If they can point to a CVE, you can point to a mitigation at https://security.ubuntu.com for your current (fully patched) version of openSSH. Patching is a decades-old and fully-accepted method of mitigation. Failure of an audit to include patching is a big red flag suggesting an incomptent auditor and that your organization is wasting its money. — user535733, Mar 22 '24 at 02:24
An alternate mitigation would be to upgrade to Ubuntu 22.04. Some auditors don't like that answer either. — user10489, Mar 22 '24 at 07:30

score -1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 22 '24 at 17:17

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For anyone looking at this, I just updated Ubuntu 22.04.

answered Mar 22 '24 at 17:17

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How to install OpenSSH 8.7 or later on 20.04.6 LTS

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