vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-2966-1 (CVE-2016-3115): OpenSSH vulnerabilities

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Mar 22, 2016
Added
May 9, 2016
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

Multiple CRLF injection vulnerabilities in session.c in sshd in OpenSSH before 7.2p2 allow remote authenticated users to bypass intended shell-command restrictions via crafted X11 forwarding data, related to the (1) do_authenticated1 and (2) session_x11_req functions.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-openssh-server
Title
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