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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1476-1 dropbear -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

27 Aug 2018

Affected Packages:

dropbear

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 906890.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-15599.

More information:

A vulnerability in dropbear, a lightweight SSH2 server and client, making it possible to guess valid usernames has been found:

• CVE-2018-15599

  The recv_msg_userauth_request function in svr-auth.c in is prone to a user enumeration vulnerability, similar to CVE-2018-15473 in OpenSSH.

For Debian 8 Jessie, this problem has been fixed in version 2014.65-1+deb8u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your dropbear packages.

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