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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for openssh (ALAS-2016-675) (CVE-2016-1908)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Mar 30, 2016
Added
Mar 30, 2016
Modified
Oct 30, 2017

Description

An access flaw was discovered in the OpenSSH client where it did not correctly handle failures to generate authentication cookies for untrusted X11 forwarding. A malicious or compromised remote X application could possibly use this flaw to establish a trusted connection to the local X server, even if only untrusted X11 forwarding was requested.

Solutions

amazon-linux-upgrade-opensshamazon-linux-upgrade-openssh-clientsamazon-linux-upgrade-openssh-debuginfoamazon-linux-upgrade-openssh-keycatamazon-linux-upgrade-openssh-ldapamazon-linux-upgrade-openssh-serveramazon-linux-upgrade-pam_ssh_agent_auth
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