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Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-0777: OpenSSH client bugs CVE-2016-0777 and CVE-2016-0778

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jan 14, 2016
Added
Aug 30, 2017
Modified
Oct 30, 2017

Description

The resend_bytes function in roaming_common.c in the client in OpenSSH 5.x, 6.x, and 7.x before 7.1p2 allows remote servers to obtain sensitive information from process memory by requesting transmission of an entire buffer, as demonstrated by reading a private key.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-openssh
Title
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