Security Information / 2012 / Security Information -- DSA-2530-1 rssh

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2530-1 rssh -- shell command injection

Date Reported:

15 Aug 2012

Affected Packages:

rssh

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2012-3478.

More information:

Henrik Erkkonen discovered that rssh, a restricted shell for SSH, does not properly restrict shell access.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 2.3.2-13squeeze1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.3.3-5.

We recommend that you upgrade your rssh packages.