Integer Overflow or Wraparound The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package openssh-ssh1  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1804-OPENSSHSSH1-612356
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed9 Oct 2019

Introduced: 9 Oct 2019

CVE-2019-16905  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream openssh-ssh1 package and not the openssh-ssh1 package as distributed by Ubuntu.

OpenSSH 7.7 through 7.9 and 8.x before 8.1, when compiled with an experimental key type, has a pre-authentication integer overflow if a client or server is configured to use a crafted XMSS key. This leads to memory corruption and local code execution because of an error in the XMSS key parsing algorithm. NOTE: the XMSS implementation is considered experimental in all released OpenSSH versions, and there is no supported way to enable it when building portable OpenSSH.