vulnerability

Arch Linux: Arbitrary code execution (CVE-2016-10009)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jan 5, 2017
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

It was found that ssh-agent could load PKCS#11 modules from paths outside of a trusted whitelist. An attacker able to load a crafted PKCS#11 module across a forwarded agent channel could potentially use this flaw to execute arbitrary code on the system running the ssh-agent. Note that the attacker must have control of the forwarded agent-socket and the ability to write to the filesystem of the host running ssh-agent.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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