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Ubuntu 12.04 ESM USN-3603-2 Critical Paramiko Remote Code Execution

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Calendar Grey March 20, 2018
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Ubuntu Security Advisory USN-3604-1 tackles a vulnerability in the OpenSSH package that allows unauthorized command execution through specially designed requests.
Paramiko could be made to run programs if it received speciallycrafted network traffic.

Summary

Paramiko could be made to run programs if it received specially

crafted network traffic.

Software Description:

- paramiko: Make ssh v2 connections with Python

Details:

USN-3603-1 fixed a vulnerability in Paramiko. This update provides

the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

Matthijs Kooijman discovered that Paramiko's SSH server implementation

did not properly require authentication before processing requests. An

unauthenticated remote attacker could possibly use this to execute

arbitrary code.

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Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 12.04 ESM:
  python-paramiko                 1.7.7.1-2ubuntu1.1

After a standard system update you need to restart any applications
using Paramiko's server implementation to make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3603-2

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3603-1

CVE-2018-7750

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March 20, 2018

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