Security Information / 2017 / Security Information -- DSA-3859-1 dropbear

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3859-1 dropbear -- security update

Date Reported:

19 May 2017

Affected Packages:

dropbear

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-9078, CVE-2017-9079.

More information:

Two vulnerabilities were found in Dropbear, a lightweight SSH2 server and client:

• CVE-2017-9078

  Mark Shepard discovered a double free in the TCP listener cleanup which could result in denial of service by an authenticated user if Dropbear is running with the "-a" option.

• CVE-2017-9079

  Jann Horn discovered a local information leak in parsing the .authorized_keys file.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 2014.65-1+deb8u2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your dropbear packages.