Package: dropbear Version: 2014.65-1+deb8u2 Severity: grave Tags: security Justification: user security hole
dropbear 2017.75 was released [0] on May 18 and fixes the following two
security vulnerabilities, for which no CVE was assigned yet AFAIK [1].
- Security: Fix double-free in server TCP listener cleanup
A double-free in the server could be triggered by an authenticated
user if dropbear is running with -a (Allow connections to
forwarded ports from any host) This could potentially allow
arbitrary code execution as root by an authenticated user.
Affects versions 2013.56 to 2016.74. Thanks to Mark Shepard for
reporting the crash.
Patch: https://secure.ucc.asn.au/hg/dropbear/rev/c8114a48837c
- Security: Fix information disclosure with ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
symlink.
Dropbear parsed authorized_keys as root, even if it were a
symlink. The fix is to switch to user permissions when opening
authorized_keys
A user could symlink their ~/.ssh/authorized_keys to a root-owned
file they couldn't normally read. If they managed to get that file
to contain valid authorized_keys with command= options it might be
possible to read other contents of that file.
This information disclosure is to an already authenticated user.
Thanks to Jann Horn of Google Project Zero for reporting this.
Patch: https://secure.ucc.asn.au/hg/dropbear/rev/0d889b068123
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Guilhem.
[0] http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/dropbear/2017q2/001985.html
https://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/CHANGES (currently yields 403)
[1] http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/dropbear/2017q2/001987.html
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