GLSA Advocate
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Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2018 6:26 pm Post subject: [ GLSA 201810-03 ] OpenSSH |
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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory
Title: OpenSSH: User enumeration vulnerability (GLSA 201810-03)
Severity: low
Exploitable: remote
Date: 2018-10-06
Bug(s): #664264
ID: 201810-03
Synopsis
A vulnerability in OpenSSH might allow remote attackers to
determine valid usernames.
Background
OpenSSH is a complete SSH protocol implementation that includes SFTP
client and server support.
Affected Packages
Package: net-misc/openssh
Vulnerable: < 7.7_p1-r8
Unaffected: >= 7.7_p1-r8
Architectures: All supported architectures
Description
It was discovered that OpenSSH was prone to a user enumeration
vulnerability.
Impact
A remote attacker could conduct user enumeration.
Workaround
There is no known workaround at this time.
Resolution
All OpenSSH users should upgrade to the latest version: Code: | # emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/openssh-7.7_p1-r8"
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References
CVE-2018-15473 |
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