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openSUSE Leap 15.0 openSUSE-SU-2019:0307-1 Moderate: OpenSSH Fixes

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Calendar Grey March 8, 2019
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openSUSE Security Update: Security update for openssh ______________________________________________
An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.

Description

This update for openssh fixes the following issues:

Security vulnerabilities addressed:

- CVE-2019-6109: Fixed an character encoding issue in the progress display

of the scp client that could be used to manipulate client output,

allowing for spoofing during file transfers (bsc#1121816)

- CVE-2019-6111: Properly validate object names received by the scp client

to prevent arbitrary file overwrites when interacting with a malicious

SSH server (bsc#1121821)

Other bug fixes and changes:

- Handle brace expansion in scp when checking that filenames sent by the

server side match what the client requested (bsc#1125687)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue file transfer OpenSSH openSUSE

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 15.0:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2019-307=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (i586 x86_64):

openssh-7.6p1-lp150.8.15.2

openssh-cavs-7.6p1-lp150.8.15.2

openssh-cavs-debuginfo-7.6p1-lp150.8.15.2

openssh-debuginfo-7.6p1-lp150.8.15.2

openssh-debugsource-7.6p1-lp150.8.15.2

openssh-fips-7.6p1-lp150.8.15.2

openssh-helpers-7.6p1-lp150.8.15.2

openssh-helpers-debuginfo-7.6p1-lp150.8.15.2

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (x86_64):

openssh-askpass-gnome-7.6p1-lp150.8.15.1

openssh-askpass-gnome-debuginfo-7.6p1-lp150.8.15.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-6109.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-6111.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1121816

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1121821

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1125687

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:0307-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.0 le.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue file transfer OpenSSH openSUSE

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