OpenPKG Security Advisory - Ulrich Drepper discovered [0] a weakness in OpenSSH [1] version 4.2p1 and earlier, caused due to the insecure use of the system(3) function in scp(1) when performing copy operations using filenames that are supplied by the user from the command line. This can be exploited to execute shell commands with privileges of the user running scp(1).
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OpenPKG Security Advisory The OpenPKG Project
http://www.openpkg.org/security.html http://www.openpkg.org
openpkg-security@openpkg.org openpkg@openpkg.org
OpenPKG-SA-2006.003 18-Feb-2006
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Package: openssh
Vulnerability: arbitrary shell command excecution
OpenPKG Specific: no
Affected Releases: Affected Packages: Corrected Packages:
OpenPKG CURRENT <= openssh-4.2p1-20060101 >= openssh-4.3p1-20060201
OpenPKG 2.5 <= openssh-4.2p1-2.5.1 >= openssh-4.2p1-2.5.2
OpenPKG 2.4 <= openssh-4.1p1-2.4.1 >= openssh-4.1p1-2.4.2
OpenPKG 2.3 <= openssh-3.9p1-2.3.0 >= openssh-3.9p1-2.3.1
Description:
Ulrich Drepper discovered [0] a weakness in OpenSSH [1] version 4.2p1
and earlier, caused due to the insecure use of the system(3) function
in scp(1) when performing copy operations using filenames that are
supplied by the user from the command line. This can be exploited to
execute shell commands with privileges of the user running scp(1). The
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project assigned the id
CVE-2006-0225 [2] to the problem.
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References:
[0] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=168167
[1] http://www.openssh.com/
[2] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0225
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