SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : openssh (SUSE-SU-2016:2280-1)

This update for openssh fixes the following issues : - Prevent user enumeration through the timing of password processing bsc989363, CVE-2016-6210 -preventtiminguserenumeration - Allow lowering the DH groups parameter limit in server as well as when GSSAPI key exchange is used bsc948902 - limit...

Updated openssh packages fix security vulnerability

The dosetupenv function in session.c in sshd in OpenSSH through 7.2p2, when the UseLogin feature is enabled and PAM is configured to read .pamenvironment files in user home directories, allows local users to gain privileges by triggering a crafted environment for the /bin/login program, as...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3061-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

USN-3061-1: OpenSSH vulnerabilities

Eddie Harari discovered that OpenSSH incorrectly handled password hashing when authenticating non-existing users. A remote attacker could perform a timing attack and enumerate valid users. CVE-2016-6210 Tomas Kuthan, Andres Rojas, and Javier Nieto discovered that OpenSSH did not limit password...

Debian DLA-594-1 : openssh security update

OpenSSH secure shell client and server had a denial of service vulnerability reported. CVE-2016-6515 The password authentication function in sshd in OpenSSH before 7.3 does not limit password lengths for password authentication, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crypt CPU...

Fedora 24 : openssh (2016-4a3debc3a6)

Security fix for CVE-2016-6515 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300...

CVE-2016-6515

OpenSSH sshd vulnerability CVE-2016-6515 arises from the auth_password function not enforcing a maximum password length for password authentication, allowing remote, unauthenticated attackers to trigger high CPU consumption and denial of service via a long input string. Affected products: OpenSSH...