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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-594-1 openssh -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

12 Aug 2016

Affected Packages:

openssh

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 833823.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-6515.

More information:

OpenSSH secure shell client and server had a denial of service vulnerability reported.

• CVE-2016-6515

  The password authentication function in sshd in OpenSSH before 7.3 does not limit password lengths for password authentication, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crypt CPU consumption) via a long string.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, this problems has been fixed in version 6.0p1-4+deb7u6.

We recommend that you upgrade your openssh packages.

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