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Gentoo: GLSA-200802-06 Normal: Scponly Access Issues and Threats

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Calendar Grey February 12, 2008
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A new security advisory reveals vulnerabilities in scponly, allowing authenticated users to bypass restrictions and compromise server integrity. Upgrade for safety
Multiple vulnerabilities in scponly allow authenticated users to bypass security restrictions.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200802-06
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: Normal
     Title: scponly: Multiple vulnerabilities
      Date: February 12, 2008
      Bugs: #201726, #203099
        ID: 200802-06


Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities in scponly allow authenticated users to bypass
security restrictions.

Background
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scponly is a shell for restricting user access to file transfer only
using sftp and scp.

Affected packages
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     Package           /  Vulnerable  /                     Unaffected
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  1  net-misc/scponly        < 4.8                              >= 4.8

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Florian Weimer from Debian discovered that scponly does not filter the
- -o and -F options to the scp exec...
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