CVE-2016-3116

Summary

CVECVE-2016-3116
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2016-03-22 10:59:00 UTC
Updated2016-12-03 03:26:00 UTC
DescriptionCRLF injection vulnerability in Dropbear SSH before 2016.72 allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended shell-command restrictions via crafted X11 forwarding data.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Dropbear Ssh Project Dropbear Ssh All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/CHANGES CONFIRM matt.ucc.asn.au
Full Disclosure: CVE-2016-3116 - Dropbear SSH xauth injection FULLDISC seclists.org
openSUSE-SU-2016:0882-1: moderate: Security update for dropbear SUSE lists.opensuse.org
openSUSE-SU-2016:0874-1: moderate: Security update for dropbear SUSE lists.opensuse.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: dropbear-2016.72-1.fc22 FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: dropbear-2016.72-1.fc23 FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
Dropbear: Privilege escalation (GLSA 201607-08) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
pub/pocs/cve-2016-3115 at master · tintinweb/pub · GitHub MISC github.com
Dropbear SSHD xauth Command Injection / Bypass ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: dropbear-2016.72-1.fc24 FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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