Information Exposure Affecting openssh-portable package, versions [,5.9)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-OPENSSHPORTABLE-2319316
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed3 Feb 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Feb 2014

CVE-2011-4327  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade openssh-portable to version 5.9 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure ssh-keysign.c in ssh-keysign in OpenSSH before 5.8p2 on certain platforms executes ssh-rand-helper with unintended open file descriptors, which allows local users to obtain sensitive key information via the ptrace system call.

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