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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2023-38408: Security patch for openssh (ALAS-2023-1802)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2023-38408: Security patch for openssh (ALAS-2023-1802)

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
07/20/2023
Created
08/24/2023
Added
08/23/2023
Modified
01/28/2025

Description

The PKCS#11 feature in ssh-agent in OpenSSH before 9.3p2 has an insufficiently trustworthy search path, leading to remote code execution if an agent is forwarded to an attacker-controlled system. (Code in /usr/lib is not necessarily safe for loading into ssh-agent.) NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-10009.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-openssh

References

  • ALAS-2023-1802
  • CVE-2023-38408

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