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Posted on 19 May 2017
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3859-1 security@debian.org
https://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
May 19, 2017 https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : dropbear
CVE ID : CVE-2017-9078 CVE-2017-9079
Two vulnerabilities were found in Dropbear, a lightweight SSH2 server
and client:
CVE-2017-9078
Mark Shepard discovered a double free in the TCP listener cleanup
which could result in denial of service by an authenticated user if
Dropbear is running with the "-a" option.
CVE-2017-9079
Jann Horn discovered a local information leak in parsing the
.authorized_keys file.
For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 2014.65-1+deb8u2.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your dropbear packages.
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
