CVE-2017-9079
First published: Fri May 19 2017(Updated: )
Dropbear before 2017.75 might allow local users to read certain files as root, if the file has the authorized_keys file format with a command= option. This occurs because ~/.ssh/authorized_keys is read with root privileges and symlinks are followed.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Dropbear Ssh Project Dropbear Ssh | <2017.75 | |
| Debian Debian Linux | =8.0 |
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- agent/tags
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- agent/description
- agent/remedy
- agent/last-modified-date
- agent/softwarecombine
- agent/first-publish-date
- vendor/dropbear ssh project
- canonical/dropbear ssh project dropbear ssh
- vendor/debian
- canonical/debian debian linux
- version/debian debian linux/8.0