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Fedora 23: 2016-bb59db3c86 Moderate: Openssh X11 Auth Fix

fedora
Calendar Grey March 13, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest Fedora 23 patch for OpenSSH resolves problems regarding X11 authentication, reinforcing the integrity of encrypted data transmission.
This update provides recent upstream (security) release, sanitizing X11 authentication credentials.

Summary

SSH (Secure SHell) is a program for logging into and executing

commands on a remote machine. SSH is intended to replace rlogin and

rsh, and to provide secure encrypted communications between two

untrusted hosts over an insecure network. X11 connections and

arbitrary TCP/IP ports can also be forwarded over the secure channel.

OpenSSH is OpenBSD's version of the last free version of SSH, bringing

it up to date in terms of security and features.

This package includes the core files necessary for both the OpenSSH

client and server. To make this package useful, you should also

install openssh-clients, openssh-server, or both.

Update Information:

This update provides recent upstream (security) release, sanitizing X11 authentication credentials.

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Topics Covered

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Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1316829 - CVE-2016-3115 openssh: missing sanitisation of input for X11 forwarding https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1316829

Update Instructions

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

Name: openssh
Product: Fedora 23
Version: 7.2p2
Release: 1.fc23
URL: https://www.openssh.org/portable.html
Summary: An open source implementation of SSH protocol versions 1 and 2

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Topics Covered

security advisory update Fedora authentication openssh X11

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