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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-3116: Dropbear: Privilege escalation

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-3116: Dropbear: Privilege escalation

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
03/22/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

CRLF injection vulnerability in Dropbear SSH before 2016.72 allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended shell-command restrictions via crafted X11 forwarding data.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-misc-dropbear

References

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