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Mageia 8: MGASA-2021-0261 Moderate: OpenSSH Double Free

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Calendar Grey June 16, 2021
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Released on July 22, 2022, this bulletin discusses updates in OpenSSL aimed at patching a severe buffer overflow issue.
ssh-agent in OpenSSH before 8.5 has a double free that may be relevant in a few less-common scenarios, such as unconstrained agent-socket access on a legacy operating system, or ...

Summary

ssh-agent in OpenSSH before 8.5 has a double free that may be relevant in a few less-common scenarios, such as unconstrained agent-socket access on a legacy operating system, or the forwarding of an agent to an attacker-controlled host (CVE-2021-28041).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29001

- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/TXST2CML2MWY3PNVUXX7FFJE3ATJMNVZ/

- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4762-1

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-28041

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update OpenSSH double free Mageia agent-socket

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/openssh-8.4p1-2.1.mga8

Publication date: 16 Jun 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0261.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2021-28041

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update OpenSSH double free Mageia agent-socket

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