USN-6242-1: OpenSSH vulnerability

24 July 2023

OpenSSH could be made to run programs as your login when using ssh-agent forwarding.

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Releases

Packages

  • openssh - secure shell (SSH) for secure access to remote machines

Details

It was discovered that OpenSSH incorrectly handled loading certain PKCS#11
providers. If a user forwarded their ssh-agent to an untrusted system, a
remote attacker could possibly use this issue to load arbitrary libraries
from the user's system and execute arbitrary code.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 23.04
Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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