USN-6887-1: OpenSSH vulnerability
9 July 2024
OpenSSH could be made to expose timing information over the network.
Releases
Packages
- openssh - secure shell (SSH) for secure access to remote machines
Details
Philippos Giavridis, Jacky Wei En Kung, Daniel Hugenroth, and Alastair
Beresford discovered that the OpenSSH ObscureKeystrokeTiming feature did
not work as expected. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to
determine timing information about keystrokes.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 24.04
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.