openSUSE Security Update: Security update for openssh
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:3946-1
Rating: moderate
References: #1091396 #1105010 #964336
Cross-References: CVE-2018-15473
Affected Products:
openSUSE Leap 42.3
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An update that solves one vulnerability and has two fixes
is now available.

Description:

This update for openssh fixes the following issues:

Following security issues have been fixed:

– CVE-2018-15473: OpenSSH was prone to a user existance oracle
vulnerability due to not delaying bailout for an invalid authenticating
user until after the packet containing the request has been fully
parsed, related to auth2-gss.c, auth2-hostbased.c, and auth2-pubkey.c.
(bsc#1105010)

The following non-security issues were fixed:

– Stop leaking File descriptors (bsc#964336)
– sftp-client.c returns wrong error code upon failure [bsc#1091396]

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:Update update project.

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods
like YaST online_update or “zypper patch”.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

– openSUSE Leap 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-1477=1

Package List:

– openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):

openssh-7.2p2-25.1
openssh-askpass-gnome-7.2p2-25.1
openssh-askpass-gnome-debuginfo-7.2p2-25.1
openssh-cavs-7.2p2-25.1
openssh-cavs-debuginfo-7.2p2-25.1
openssh-debuginfo-7.2p2-25.1
openssh-debugsource-7.2p2-25.1
openssh-fips-7.2p2-25.1
openssh-helpers-7.2p2-25.1
openssh-helpers-debuginfo-7.2p2-25.1

References:

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-15473.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1091396
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1105010
https://bugzilla.suse.com/964336

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