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Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-3115: openssh missing sanitisation of input for X11 forwarding

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-3115: openssh missing sanitisation of input for X11 forwarding

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
03/22/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/30/2017
Modified
01/08/2018

Description

Multiple CRLF injection vulnerabilities in session.c in sshd in OpenSSH before 7.2p2 allow remote authenticated users to bypass intended shell-command restrictions via crafted X11 forwarding data, related to the (1) do_authenticated1 and (2) session_x11_req functions.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-openssh

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