vulnerability

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
Mar 22, 2016
Added
Aug 30, 2017
Modified
Jan 8, 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

alpine-linux-upgrade-openssh
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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