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Fedora 25: Dropbear Update Critical: Fixes For CVE-2017-9078, CVE-2017-9079

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Essential security patches for dropbear in Fedora mitigate risks associated with vulnerabilities CVE-2017-9078 and CVE-2017-9079.
Security fixes for CVE-2017-9078 CVE-2017-9079

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.

Security fixes for CVE-2017-9078 CVE-2017-9079

[ 1 ] Bug #1452738 - CVE-2017-9078 CVE-2017-9079 dropbear: Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in 2017.75 version

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1452738

su -c 'dnf upgrade dropbear' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org

To unsubscribe send an email to package-announce-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org

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Topics Covered

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 25
Version: 2017.75
Release: 1.fc25
URL: https://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html
Summary: Lightweight SSH server and client

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