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Slackware 15.0: SSA:2023-200-02 Moderate: OpenSSH Code Execution

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Calendar Grey July 19, 2023
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Updated OpenSSH versions released for Slackware addressing a critical remote code execution vulnerability in ssh-agent. Ensure you upgrade immediately!
New openssh packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix a security issue

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/openssh-9.3p2-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: ssh-agent(1) in OpenSSH between and 5.5 and 9.3p1 (inclusive): remote code execution relating to PKCS#11 providers. The PKCS#11 support ssh-agent(1) could be abused to achieve remote code execution via a forwarded agent socket if the following conditions are met: * Exploitation requires the presence of specific libraries on the victim system. * Remote exploitation requires that the agent was forwarded to an attacker-controlled system. Exploitation can also be prevented by starting ssh-agent(1) with an empty PKCS#11/FIDO allowlist (ssh-agent -P ') or by configuring an allowlist that contains only specific provider libraries. This vulnerability was discovered and demonstrated to be exploitable by the Qualys Security Advisory team. Potentially-incompatible changes: * ssh-agent(8): the agent will

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Where Find New Packages

Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (https://osuosl.org/) for donating FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for additional mirror sites near you.
Updated package for Slackware 15.0:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 15.0 package: f2083947439060e937a3e720c8ba2035 openssh-9.3p2-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: 65bc59e75ee1b485ebbb2c5b744fd932 openssh-9.3p2-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: 95dc2417dcd41443872c894c693be90a n/openssh-9.3p2-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: f41ca760cefc726afa5b0c8905d80907 n/openssh-9.3p2-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg openssh-9.3p2-i586-1_slack15.0.txz Next, restart the sshd daemon: # sh /etc/rc.d/rc.sshd restart

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