vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-7408: Dropbear: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Mar 3, 2017
Added
Oct 30, 2017
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

The dbclient in Dropbear SSH before 2016.74 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted (1) -m or (2) -c argument.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-misc-dropbear
Title
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