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:
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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