619198 – net-misc/dropbear: cve-2017-9078: might allow post-authentication root remote code execution

Bug 619198 - net-misc/dropbear: cve-2017-9078: might allow post-authentication root remote code execution

Summary: net-misc/dropbear: cve-2017-9078: might allow post-authentication root remote...

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 619002

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Security
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Security

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Reported:	2017-05-21 15:54 UTC by Ian Zimmerman
Modified:	2017-05-21 16:05 UTC (History)
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Description Ian Zimmerman 2017-05-21 15:54:58 UTC

According to the RedHat summary [1]:

The server in Dropbear before 2017.75 might allow post-authentication
root remote code execution because of a double free in cleanup of TCP
listeners when the -a option is enabled.

Upstream ref [2]
Patch [3]

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[1]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-9078

[2]
http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/dropbear/2017q2/001985.html

[3]
https://secure.ucc.asn.au/hg/dropbear/rev/c8114a48837c

Comment 1 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2017-05-21 16:05:33 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 619002 ***