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Debian Buster DLA-3532-1 Critical: OpenSSH Code Execution Risk

debian lts
Calendar Grey August 17, 2023
Dist Debian Esm H88
Essential OpenSSH security patch for Debian LTS addresses remote code execution vulnerability linked to pkcs11 management on insecure environments.
It was discovered that OpenSSH incorrectly handled loading certain PKCS#11 providers

Summary

In addition to the above security issue, this update also fixed
another bug - bad interaction between the ssh_config ConnectTimeout
and ConnectionAttempts directives - connection attempts after the
first attempt were ignoring the requested timeout. More details about
this can be found at https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2918.

For Debian 10 buster, this problem has been fixed in version
1:7.9p1-10+deb10u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your openssh packages.

For the detailed security status of openssh please refer to
its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/openssh

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


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Package: openssh
Version: 1:7.9p1-10+deb10u3
CVE ID: CVE-2023-38408
Debian Bug: 1042460

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