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USN-2869-1 OpenSSH vulnerability

USN-2869-1 OpenSSH vulnerability

Severity

High

Vendor

OpenSSH

Versions Affected

  • Ubuntu 14.04

Description

It was discovered that the OpenSSH client experimental support for resuming connections contained multiple security issues. A malicious server could use this issue to leak client memory to the server, including private client user keys.

The Cloud Foundry project released a BOSH stemcell version 3146.3 that has the patched version of the Linux kernel. A new Cloud Foundry rootfs was also released, cflinuxfs2 v.1.29.0, that has the patches.

Affected Products and Versions

Severity is high unless otherwise noted.

  • All versions of Cloud Foundry BOSH stemcells prior to 3146.3 are vulnerable.
  • All versions of Cloud Foundry cflinuxfs2 prior to v.1.29.0.

Mitigation

Users of affected versions should apply the following mitigation:

  • The Cloud Foundry project recommends that Cloud Foundry deployments run with BOSH stemcells 3146.3 or later versions and cflinuxfs2 v.1.29.0 or later versions.

Credit

N/A

References

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