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FreeBSD: VID-60931F98-55A7-11E7-8514-589CFC0654E1 (CVE-2017-9079): Dropbear -- two vulnerabilities

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FreeBSD: VID-60931F98-55A7-11E7-8514-589CFC0654E1 (CVE-2017-9079): Dropbear -- two vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
05/18/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/04/2017
Modified
05/07/2019

Description

Dropbear before 2017.75 might allow local users to read certain files as root, if the file has the authorized_keys file format with a command= option. This occurs because ~/.ssh/authorized_keys is read with root privileges and symlinks are followed.

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-dropbear

References

  • DLA-948-1
  • DSA-3859
  • CVE-2017-9079

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