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DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9079

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....

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 dropbear

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2016.74-5"}]}]

Debian:13 dropbear

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2016.74-5"}]}]

Debian:14 dropbear

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2016.74-5"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org