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USN-6242-2: OpenSSH vulnerability

31 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

USN-6242-1 fixed a vulnerability in OpenSSH. This update provides
the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS,
and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

Original advisory 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 18.04
Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 14.04

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

References

Related notices

  • USN-6242-1: openssh-client, openssh, openssh-server, openssh-sftp-server, openssh-tests, ssh, ssh-askpass-gnome