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Alpine Linux: CVE-2015-6563: OpenSSH multiple authentication issues

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2015-6563: OpenSSH multiple authentication issues

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
08/23/2015
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/30/2017
Modified
01/08/2018

Description

The monitor component in sshd in OpenSSH before 7.0 on non-OpenBSD platforms accepts extraneous username data in MONITOR_REQ_PAM_INIT_CTX requests, which allows local users to conduct impersonation attacks by leveraging any SSH login access in conjunction with control of the sshd uid to send a crafted MONITOR_REQ_PWNAM request, related to monitor.c and monitor_wrap.c.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-openssh

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