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Debian LTS Advisory ([SECURITY] [DLA 948-1] dropbear security update)
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Debian Local Security Checks
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
4.7
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
6 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
A vulnerability was found in Dropbear, a lightweight SSH2 server and client. CVE-2017-9079 Jann Horn discovered a local information leak in parsing the .authorized_keys file.
Affected Software
Affected Software
dropbear on Debian Linux
Detection Method
Detection Method
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
Solution
Solution
For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this problem has been fixed in version 2012.55-1.3+deb7u2. We recommend that you upgrade your dropbear packages.