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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3550-1 openssh -- security update

Date Reported:

15 Apr 2016

Affected Packages:

openssh

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-8325.

More information:

Shayan Sadigh discovered a vulnerability in OpenSSH: If PAM support is enabled and the sshd PAM configuration is configured to read userspecified environment variables and the UseLogin option is enabled, a local user may escalate her privileges to root.

In Debian UseLogin is not enabled by default.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 6.0p1-4+deb7u4.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 6.7p1-5+deb8u2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1:7.2p2-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your openssh packages.