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openSUSE 13.1: openSUSE-SU-2016:1917-1 Critical Update for Dropbear

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Calendar Grey July 31, 2016
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Essential upgrade for dropbear on openSUSE resolves significant vulnerabilities. Confirm your system is updated.
An update that contains security fixes can now be installed

Description

This update for dropbear fixes four security issues (bnc#990363):

- A format string injection vulnerability allowed remotes attacker to run

arbitrary code as root if specific usernames including "%" symbols could

be created on the target system. If a dbclient user can control

usernames or host arguments, or untrusted input is processed,

potentially arbitrary code could have been executed as the dbclient user.

- When importing malicious OpenSSH key files via dropbearconvert,

arbitrary code could have been executed as the local dropbearconvert user

- If particular -m or -c arguments were provided, as used in scripts,

dbclient could have executed arbitrary code

- dbclient or dropbear server could have exposed process memory to the

running user if compiled with DEBUG_TRACE and running with -v

Dropbear was updated to the upstream 2016.74 release, including fixes for

the following upstream issues:

- Port forwarding failure when...

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Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE 13.1:

zypper in -t patch 2016-918=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE 13.1 (i586 x86_64):

dropbear-2016.74-2.10.1

dropbear-debuginfo-2016.74-2.10.1

dropbear-debugsource-2016.74-2.10.1

References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/990363

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:1917-1
Rating: critical
Affected Products: openSUSE 13.1 .

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