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Debian: CVE-2016-5725: jsch -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2016-5725: jsch -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
09/05/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/31/2017
Modified
03/02/2020

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in JCraft JSch before 0.1.54 on Windows, when the mode is ChannelSftp.OVERWRITE, allows remote SFTP servers to write to arbitrary files via a ..\ (dot dot backslash) in a response to a recursive GET command.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-jsch

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