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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-20685: Security patch for openssh (ALAS-2019-1216)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-20685: Security patch for openssh (ALAS-2019-1216)

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
01/10/2019
Created
05/08/2020
Added
04/27/2020
Modified
09/30/2022

Description

In OpenSSH 7.9, scp.c in the scp client allows remote SSH servers to bypass intended access restrictions via the filename of . or an empty filename. The impact is modifying the permissions of the target directory on the client side.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-openssh
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-openssh-askpass
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-openssh-cavs
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-openssh-clients
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-openssh-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-openssh-keycat
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-openssh-ldap
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-openssh-server
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-openssh-server-sysvinit
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-pam_ssh_agent_auth

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