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Debian: DSA-3446-1 Critical: OpenSSH Memory Leak DoS Threat

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Calendar Grey January 14, 2016
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Significant OpenSSH patch for Debian has disabled roaming feature to mitigate potential vulnerabilities. Users are strongly advised to perform an immediate update.
The Qualys Security team discovered two vulnerabilities in the roaming code of the OpenSSH client (an implementation of the SSH protocol suite)

Summary

The Qualys Security team discovered two vulnerabilities in the roaming
code of the OpenSSH client (an implementation of the SSH protocol
suite).

SSH roaming enables a client, in case an SSH connection breaks
unexpectedly, to resume it at a later time, provided the server also
supports it.

The OpenSSH server doesn't support roaming, but the OpenSSH client
supports it (even though it's not documented) and it's enabled by
default.

CVE-2016-0777

An information leak (memory disclosure) can be exploited by a rogue
SSH server to trick a client into leaking sensitive data from the
client memory, including for example private keys.

CVE-2016-0778

A buffer overflow (leading to file descriptor leak), can also be
exploited by a rogue SSH server, but due to another bug in the code
is possibly not exploitable, and only under certain conditions (not
the default configuration), when using ProxyCommand, ForwardAgent or
ForwardX11.

This security update completely disables the roaming code...

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Package: openssh
CVE ID: CVE-2016-0777 CVE-2016-0778

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