Bug 619198

Summary:	net-misc/dropbear: cve-2017-9078: might allow post-authentication root remote code execution
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Ian Zimmerman <nobrowser>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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 ***