Advisories » MGASA-2021-0261

Updated openssh packages fix a security vulnerability

Publication date: 16 Jun 2021
Modification date: 16 Jun 2021
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 8
CVE: CVE-2021-28041

Description

ssh-agent in OpenSSH before 8.5 has a double free that may be relevant in a 
few less-common scenarios, such as unconstrained agent-socket access on a 
legacy operating system, or the forwarding of an agent to an 
attacker-controlled host (CVE-2021-28041). 
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29001
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/TXST2CML2MWY3PNVUXX7FFJE3ATJMNVZ/
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4762-1
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-28041

SRPMS

8/core

• openssh-8.4p1-2.1.mga8