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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
Jul 3, 2017
Added
Jul 4, 2017
Modified
Jun 15, 2026

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

freebsd-upgrade-package-dropbear
Title
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