Advisories » MGASA-2017-0483

Updated openssh packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 31 Dec 2017
Modification date: 31 Dec 2017
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 6
CVE: CVE-2017-15906

Description

The process_open function in sftp-server.c in OpenSSH before 7.6 does
not properly prevent write operations in readonly mode, which allows
attackers to create zero-length files (CVE-2017-15906).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22104
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/VZIQDU7D6MLXFXZ4R3ZG2FCH6EDR3MBD/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-15906

SRPMS

6/core

• openssh-7.5p1-2.1.mga6