Details
It was discovered that the OpenSSH client experimental support for resuming
connections contained multiple security issues. A malicious server could
use this issue to leak client memory to the server, including private
client user keys.
This is the most serious bug you’ll hear about this week: the issues identified and fixed in OpenSSH are dubbed CVE-2016-0777 and CVE-2016-0778.
An early heads up came from Theo de Raadt in this mailing list posting.
Until you are able to patch affected systems, the recommended workaround is to use
UPDATE: This affects OpenSSH versions 5.4 through 7.1.
UPDATE: The following commit from deraadt@ has just gone in:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: [email protected] 2016/01/14 07:34:34
Modified files:
usr.bin/ssh : readconf.c ssh.c
Log message:
Disable experimental client-side roaming support. Server side was
disabled/gutted for years already, but this aspect was surprisingly
forgotten. Thanks for report from Qualys
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Tomi Engdahl says:
USN-2869-1: OpenSSH vulnerabilities
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2869-1/
Details
It was discovered that the OpenSSH client experimental support for resuming
connections contained multiple security issues. A malicious server could
use this issue to leak client memory to the server, including private
client user keys.
OpenSSH: client bugs CVE-2016-0777 and CVE-2016-0778
http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20160114142733
This is the most serious bug you’ll hear about this week: the issues identified and fixed in OpenSSH are dubbed CVE-2016-0777 and CVE-2016-0778.
An early heads up came from Theo de Raadt in this mailing list posting.
Until you are able to patch affected systems, the recommended workaround is to use
UPDATE: This affects OpenSSH versions 5.4 through 7.1.
UPDATE: The following commit from deraadt@ has just gone in:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: [email protected] 2016/01/14 07:34:34
Modified files:
usr.bin/ssh : readconf.c ssh.c
Log message:
Disable experimental client-side roaming support. Server side was
disabled/gutted for years already, but this aspect was surprisingly
forgotten. Thanks for report from Qualys
Tomi Engdahl says:
Related posting: http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/2016/01/15/openssh-client-bugs-cve-2016-0777-and-cve-2016-0778/