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RegreSSHion is a family of security bugs in the OpenSSH software that allows for an attacker to remotely execute code and gain potential root access on a machine running the OpenSSH Server. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The vulnerability was discovered by the Qualys Threat Research Unit and was disclosed on July 1, 2024.
A local privilege escalation vulnerability existed in OpenSSH 6.8 to 6.9 (CVE-2015-6565) due to world-writable (622) TTY devices, which was believed to be a denial of service vulnerability. [40] With the use of the TIOCSTI ioctl , it was possible for authenticated users to inject characters into other users terminals and execute arbitrary ...
The weak-key-generation vulnerability was promptly patched after it was reported, but any services still using keys that were generated by the old code remain vulnerable. A number of software packages now contain checks against a weak key blacklist to attempt to prevent use of any of these remaining weak keys, but researchers continue to find ...
The issue has been given the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures number CVE-2024-3094 and has been assigned a CVSS score of 10.0, the highest possible score. [ 5 ] While xz is commonly present in most Linux distributions , at the time of discovery the backdoored version had not yet been widely deployed to production systems, but was present in ...
In 1998, a vulnerability was described in SSH 1.5 which allowed the unauthorized insertion of content into an encrypted SSH stream due to insufficient data integrity protection from CRC-32 used in this version of the protocol.
Based on the original SSH suite and developed further by the OpenBSD team, 2.6 saw the first release of OpenSSH, which is now available standard on most Unix-like operating systems and is the most widely used SSH suite. [142] 2.7 15 June 2000 Support for SSH2 added to OpenSSH. [143]
Social Security is the U.S. government's biggest program; as of June 30, 2024, about 67.9 million people, or one in five Americans, collected Social Security benefits. This year, we're seeing a...
In software development, time-of-check to time-of-use (TOCTOU, TOCTTOU or TOC/TOU) is a class of software bugs caused by a race condition involving the checking of the state of a part of a system (such as a security credential) and the use of the results of that check.