Gentoo: 202310-25 High: Apache2 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
gentoo
September 23, 2003
Portable OpenSSH versions 3.7p1 and 3.7.1p1 contain multiplevulnerabilities in the new PAM code
Summary
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200309-14
quote from advisory:
"Portable OpenSSH versions 3.7p1 and 3.7.1p1 contain multiple vulnerabilities in the new PAM code. At least one of these bugs is remotely exploitable (under a non-standard configuration, with privsep disabled)."
read the full advisory at: openssh
SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running net-misc/openssh upgrade to openssh-3.7.1_p2 as follows:
emerge sync emerge openssh emerge clean
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PACKAGE : openssh
SUMMARY : multiple vulnerabilities in new PAM code
DATE : 2003-09-23 20:25 UTC
EXPLOIT : remote
VERSIONS AFFECTED : =openssh-3.7.1_p2
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