The shared memory manager (associated with pre-authentication compression) in sshd in OpenSSH before 7.4 does not ensure that a bounds check is enforced by all compilers, which might allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to a sandboxed privilege-separation process, related to the m_zback and m_zlib data structures.
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DLA-1500-1 | openssh security update |
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EUVD-2016-1209 | The shared memory manager (associated with pre-authentication compression) in sshd in OpenSSH before 7.4 does not ensure that a bounds check is enforced by all compilers, which might allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to a sandboxed privilege-separation process, related to the m_zback and m_zlib data structures. |
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USN-3538-1 | OpenSSH vulnerabilities |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-06T03:07:31.930Z
Reserved: 2016-12-19T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2016-10012

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Status : Deferred
Published: 2017-01-05T02:59:03.150
Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837
Link: CVE-2016-10012


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