PT-2017-9183

CVE-2016-7409

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Published

2016-07-26

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Updated

2017-03-04

Description by

CVSS 3.1
5.5
Medium
MetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Dropbear SSH versions prior to 2016.74
Description The issue allows local users to read process memory, related to a failed remote ident. This is possible when the dbclient and server in Dropbear SSH are compiled with DEBUG TRACE and the -v argument is used.
Recommendations For versions prior to 2016.74, update to version 2016.74 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider disabling the DEBUG TRACE compilation option until a patch is available.
Exploitability
Fix
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Affected products
Related identifiers
ALT-PU-2016-1786
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