Debian: DSA-382-1 Moderate Advisory for OpenSSH Security Vulnerability

debian

September 16, 2003

A bug has been found in OpenSSH's buffer handling where a buffer couldbe marked as grown when the actual reallocation failed.

Topics Covered

security advisory remote exploit debian openSSH buffer handling

Summary

Package : ssh
Vulnerability : buffer handling
Problem type : possible remote
Debian-specific: no
CVS references : CAN-2003-0693

A bug has been found in OpenSSH's buffer handling where a buffer could
be marked as grown when the actual reallocation failed.

This bug has been fixed in upstream version 3.7. For the Debian stable
distribution this bug has eeb fixed in version 1:3.4p1-1.1 .

Please note that if a machine is setup to install packages from
proposed-updates it will not automatically install this update.

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