openSUSE: Security Advisory for dropbear (openSUSE-SU-2016:1891-1)
🗓️ 02 Aug 2016 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AGType
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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.851371");
script_version("2026-04-24T06:23:04+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2026-04-24 06:23:04 +0000 (Fri, 24 Apr 2026)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2016-08-02 10:57:05 +0530 (Tue, 02 Aug 2016)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"10.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
script_name("openSUSE: Security Advisory for dropbear (openSUSE-SU-2016:1891-1)");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update for the 'dropbear'
package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"This update for dropbear fixes four security issues (bnc#990363):
- A format string injection vulnerability allowed remotes attacker to run
arbitrary code as root if specific usernames including '%' symbols could
be created on the target system. If a dbclient user can control
usernames or host arguments, or untrusted input is processed,
potentially arbitrary code could have been executed as the dbclient user.
- When importing malicious OpenSSH key files via dropbearconvert,
arbitrary code could have been executed as the local dropbearconvert user
- If particular -m or -c arguments were provided, as used in scripts,
dbclient could have executed arbitrary code
- dbclient or dropbear server could have exposed process memory to the
running user if compiled with DEBUG_TRACE and running with -v
Dropbear was updated to the upstream 2016.74 release, including fixes for
the following upstream issues:
- Port forwarding failure when connecting to domains that have both IPv4
and IPv6 addresses
- 100% CPU use while waiting for rekey to complete
- Fix crash when fallback initshells() is used scp failing when the local
user doesn't exist
The following upstream improvements are included:
- Support syslog in dbclient, option -o usesyslog=yes
- Kill a proxycommand when dbclient exits
- Option to exit when a TCP forward fails
- Allow specifying commands eg 'dropbearmulti dbclient ...' instead of
symlinks");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"dropbear on openSUSE Leap 42.1, openSUSE 13.2");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Please install the updated package(s).");
script_xref(name:"openSUSE-SU", value:"2016:1891-1");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AG");
script_family("SuSE Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/suse", "ssh/login/rpms", re:"ssh/login/release=openSUSE13\.2");
exit(0);
}
include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-rpm.inc");
release = rpm_get_ssh_release();
if(!release)
exit(0);
res = "";
report = "";
if(release == "openSUSE13.2")
{
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"dropbear", rpm:"dropbear~2016.74~2.6.1", rls:"openSUSE13.2"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"dropbear-debuginfo", rpm:"dropbear-debuginfo~2016.74~2.6.1", rls:"openSUSE13.2"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"dropbear-debugsource", rpm:"dropbear-debugsource~2016.74~2.6.1", rls:"openSUSE13.2"))) {
report += res;
}
if(report != "") {
security_message(data:report);
} else if(__pkg_match) {
exit(99);
}
exit(0);
}
exit(0);
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