openSUSE Leap 42.3: 2018:3946-1 Moderate: OpenSSH User Issue
opensuse
November 30, 2018
An update that solves one vulnerability and has two fixes is now available.
Description
This update for openssh fixes the following issues:
Following security issues have been fixed:
- CVE-2018-15473: OpenSSH was prone to a user existance oracle
vulnerability due to not delaying bailout for an invalid authenticating
user until after the packet containing the request has been fully
parsed, related to auth2-gss.c, auth2-hostbased.c, and auth2-pubkey.c.
(bsc#1105010)
The following non-security issues were fixed:
- Stop leaking File descriptors (bsc#964336)
- sftp-client.c returns wrong error code upon failure [bsc#1091396]
This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:Update update project.
Patch
Patch Instructions:
To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods
like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
- openSUSE Leap 42.3:
zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-1477=1
Package List
- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):
openssh-7.2p2-25.1
openssh-askpass-gnome-7.2p2-25.1
openssh-askpass-gnome-debuginfo-7.2p2-25.1
openssh-cavs-7.2p2-25.1
openssh-cavs-debuginfo-7.2p2-25.1
openssh-debuginfo-7.2p2-25.1
openssh-debugsource-7.2p2-25.1
openssh-fips-7.2p2-25.1
openssh-helpers-7.2p2-25.1
openssh-helpers-debuginfo-7.2p2-25.1
References
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-15473.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1091396
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1105010
https://bugzilla.suse.com/964336
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:3946-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products:
openSUSE Leap 42.3
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