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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-15473: Security patch for openssh (ALAS-2018-1075)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-15473: Security patch for openssh (ALAS-2018-1075)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
08/17/2018
Created
05/08/2020
Added
04/27/2020
Modified
09/30/2022

Description

OpenSSH through 7.7 is prone to a user enumeration vulnerability due to not delaying bailout for an invalid authenticating user until after the packet containing the request has been fully parsed, related to auth2-gss.c, auth2-hostbased.c, and auth2-pubkey.c.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-openssh
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-openssh-askpass
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-openssh-cavs
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-openssh-clients
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-openssh-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-openssh-keycat
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-openssh-ldap
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-openssh-server
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-openssh-server-sysvinit
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-pam_ssh_agent_auth

References

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