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Fedora 26 Dropbear Update: Critical Fixes for SSH Issues

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Calendar Grey June 9, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest Fedora 26 release includes crucial security patches for Dropbear, addressing vulnerabilities that could compromise system security.
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

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Change Log

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 26
Version: 2017.75
Release: 1.fc26
Summary: Lightweight SSH server and client

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