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Debian 8: DSA-3859-1 Critical: Dropbear Denial Of Service Threat

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Calendar Grey May 19, 2017
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Maintain your Debian environment's safety with the newest Dropbear enhancements that resolve vital vulnerabilities. Discover further details today!
Two vulnerabilities were found in Dropbear, a lightweight SSH2 server and client: CVE-2017-9078

Summary

Two vulnerabilities were found in Dropbear, a lightweight SSH2 server
and client:

CVE-2017-9078

Mark Shepard discovered a double free in the TCP listener cleanup
which could result in denial of service by an authenticated user if
Dropbear is running with the "-a" option.

CVE-2017-9079

Jann Horn discovered a local information leak in parsing the
.authorized_keys file.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 2014.65-1+deb8u2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your dropbear 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: dropbear
CVE ID: CVE-2017-9078 CVE-2017-9079

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