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FreeBSD: VID-adccefd1-7080-11e6-a2cb-c80aa9043978 (CVE-2016-6210): openssh -- sshd -- remote valid user discovery and PAM /bin/login attack

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Sep 1, 2016
Added
Dec 10, 2025
Modified
Dec 10, 2025

Description

The OpenSSH project reports: * sshd(8): Mitigate timing differences in password authentication that could be used to discern valid from invalid account names when long passwords were sent and particular password hashing algorithms are in use on the server. CVE-2016-6210, reported by EddieEzra.Harari at verint.com * sshd(8): (portable only) Ignore PAM environment vars when UseLogin=yes. If PAM is configured to read user-specified environment variables and UseLogin=yes in sshd_config, then a hostile local user may attack /bin/login via LD_PRELOAD or similar environment variables set via PAM. CVE-2015-8325, found by Shayan Sadigh.

Solution

freebsd-upgrade-package-openssh-portable
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