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Gentoo: GLSA-202101-05 Normal: OpenSSL Vulnerabilities Exposed

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Calendar Grey December 21, 2015
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Enhance OpenSSH on Gentoo to address various security flaws, encompassing potential for arbitrary code execution and denial of service threats.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in OpenSSH, the worst of which could lead to arbitrary code execution, or cause a Denial of Service condition

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenSSH. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo security issue code execution DoS threat OpenSSH

Resolution

All OpenSSH users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/openssh-6.9_p1-r2"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2015-5352 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-5352 [ 2 ] CVE-2015-5600 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-5600 [ 3 ] CVE-2015-6563 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-6563 [ 4 ] CVE-2015-6564 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-6564 [ 5 ] CVE-2015-6565 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-6565

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-04
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: Normal
Title: OpenSSH: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: December 20, 2015
Bugs: #553724, #555518, #557340
ID: 201512-04

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo security issue code execution DoS threat OpenSSH

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in OpenSSH, the worst of which could lead to arbitrary code execution, or cause a Denial of Service condition.

Background

OpenSSH is a complete SSH protocol implementation that includes an SFTP client and server support.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-misc/openssh < 7.1_p1-r2 >= 7.1_p1-r2

Impact

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Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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