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OpenSSH Vulnerability: CVE-2019-16905

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OpenSSH Vulnerability: CVE-2019-16905

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/09/2019
Created
10/19/2019
Added
10/18/2019
Modified
03/02/2023

Description

OpenSSH 7.7 through 7.9 and 8.x before 8.1, when compiled with an experimental key type, has a pre-authentication integer overflow if a client or server is configured to use a crafted XMSS key. This leads to memory corruption and local code execution because of an error in the XMSS key parsing algorithm. NOTE: the XMSS implementation is considered experimental in all released OpenSSH versions, and there is no supported way to enable it when building portable OpenSSH.

Solution(s)

  • openbsd-openssh-upgrade-latest

References

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