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Debian Jessie: DSA-3614-1 Important: OpenSSL Security Issue Notification

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Calendar Grey July 2, 2016
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3614-1 addresses a vulnerability in the authentication mechanisms of OpenSSH to enhance overall security protocols.
Vivian Zhang and Christoph Anton Mitterer discovered that setting an empty VNC password does not work as documented in Libvirt, a virtualisation abstraction library
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Summary

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.2.9-9+deb8u3.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.0.0-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libvirt packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: libvirt
CVE ID: CVE-2016-5008

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