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Fedora 23 Dropbear Update Critical: CVE-2016-3116 Input Validation

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Calendar Grey March 23, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora's update for Dropbear fixes CVE-2016-3116, which involves a significant security flaw in input validation for X11 forwarding.
CVE-2016-3116 dropbear: X11 forwarding input not validated properly

Summary

Dropbear is a relatively small SSH server and client. It's particularly useful

for "embedded"-type Linux (or other Unix) systems, such as wireless routers.

Update Information:

CVE-2016-3116 dropbear: X11 forwarding input not validated properly

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update critical Fedora input validation dropbear X11 forwarding

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1316826 - CVE-2016-3116 dropbear: X11 forwarding input not validated properly [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1316826

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update dropbear' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: dropbear
Product: Fedora 23
Version: 2016.72
Release: 1.fc23
URL: https://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html
Summary: Lightweight SSH server and client

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update critical Fedora input validation dropbear X11 forwarding

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