openssh vulnerability

4 March 2019

openssh vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 18.10
• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary

One of the fixes in USN-3885-1 was incomplete.

Software Description

• openssh - secure shell (SSH) for secure access to remote machines

Details

USN-3885-1 fixed vulnerabilities in OpenSSH. It was discovered that the fix for CVE-2019-6111 turned out to be incomplete. This update fixes the problem.

Original advisory details:

Harry Sintonen discovered multiple issues in the OpenSSH scp utility. If a user or automated system were tricked into connecting to an untrusted server, a remote attacker could possibly use these issues to write to arbitrary files, change directory permissions, and spoof client output.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 18.10

openssh-client - 1:7.7p1-4ubuntu0.3

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

openssh-client - 1:7.6p1-4ubuntu0.3

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

openssh-client - 1:7.2p2-4ubuntu2.8

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

openssh-client - 1:6.6p1-2ubuntu2.13

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• USN-3885-1
• CVE-2019-6111