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vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-3116: dropbear X11 forwarding input not validated properly

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Mar 22, 2016
Added
Aug 30, 2017
Modified
Oct 30, 2017

Description

CRLF injection vulnerability in Dropbear SSH before 2016.72 allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended shell-command restrictions via crafted X11 forwarding data.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-dropbear
Title
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