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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS USN-3796-1 Critical: Paramiko Authentication Bypass

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Calendar Grey October 17, 2018
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
The Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3768-1 highlights a vulnerability found in OpenSSH that permits unauthorized interaction with internal resources.
Paramiko could allow unintended access to network services.

Summary

Paramiko could allow unintended access to network services.

Software Description:

- paramiko: Python SSH2 library

Details:

Daniel Hoffman discovered that Paramiko incorrectly handled authentication

when being used as a server. A remote attacker could use this issue to

bypass authentication without any credentials.

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security advisory remote exploit critical ubuntu authentication bypass network access paramiko

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  python-paramiko                 2.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
  python3-paramiko                2.0.0-1ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  python-paramiko                 1.16.0-1ubuntu0.2
  python3-paramiko                1.16.0-1ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  python-paramiko                 1.10.1-1git1ubuntu0.2

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make
all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3796-1

CVE-2018-1000805

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October 17, 2018

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security advisory remote exploit critical ubuntu authentication bypass network access paramiko

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/paramiko/2.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/paramiko/1.16.0-1ubuntu0.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/paramiko/1.10.1-1git1ubuntu0.2

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