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Ubuntu: USN-3538-1 (CVE-2016-10010): OpenSSH vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3538-1 (CVE-2016-10010): OpenSSH vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
01/04/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/24/2018
Modified
11/08/2024

Description

sshd in OpenSSH before 7.4, when privilege separation is not used, creates forwarded Unix-domain sockets as root, which might allow local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors, related to serverloop.c.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-openssh-server

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