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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-15473: openssh User enumeration via malformed packets in authentication requests

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-15473: openssh User enumeration via malformed packets in authentication requests

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
08/17/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
09/21/2018
Modified
12/04/2019

Description

OpenSSH through 7.7 is prone to a user enumeration vulnerability due to not delaying bailout for an invalid authenticating user until after the packet containing the request has been fully parsed, related to auth2-gss.c, auth2-hostbased.c, and auth2-pubkey.c.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-openssh

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