DSA-4280-1 openssh -- security update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-15473  

Dariusz Tytko, Michal Sajdak and Qualys Security discovered that OpenSSH, an implementation of the SSH protocol suite, was prone to a user enumeration vulnerability. This would allow a remote attacker to check whether a specific user account existed on the target server. For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 1:7.4p1-10+deb9u4. We recommend that you upgrade your openssh packages. For the detailed security status of openssh please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/openssh

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4280-1 openssh -- security update

Date Reported:
22 Aug 2018
Affected Packages:
openssh
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 906236.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-15473.
More information:

Dariusz Tytko, Michal Sajdak and Qualys Security discovered that OpenSSH, an implementation of the SSH protocol suite, was prone to a user enumeration vulnerability. This would allow a remote attacker to check whether a specific user account existed on the target server.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 1:7.4p1-10+deb9u4.

We recommend that you upgrade your openssh packages.

For the detailed security status of openssh please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/openssh