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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for openssh (ALAS-2016-668) (CVE-2016-3115)

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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for openssh (ALAS-2016-668) (CVE-2016-3115)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
03/17/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/17/2016
Modified
10/30/2017

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)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-openssh
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-openssh-clients
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-openssh-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-openssh-keycat
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-openssh-ldap
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-openssh-server
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-pam_ssh_agent_auth

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