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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2018-7750) ELSA-2018-1124: python-paramiko security update

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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2018-7750) ELSA-2018-1124: python-paramiko security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/13/2018
Created
03/05/2020
Added
03/02/2020
Modified
11/23/2022

Description

transport.py in the SSH server implementation of Paramiko before 1.17.6, 1.18.x before 1.18.5, 2.0.x before 2.0.8, 2.1.x before 2.1.5, 2.2.x before 2.2.3, 2.3.x before 2.3.2, and 2.4.x before 2.4.1 does not properly check whether authentication is completed before processing other requests, as demonstrated by channel-open. A customized SSH client can simply skip the authentication step.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python-paramiko

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