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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-01-05T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T03:07:31.930Z

Reserved: 2016-12-19T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-10012

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-01-05T02:59:03.150

Modified: 2024-11-21T02:43:05.847

Link: CVE-2016-10012

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2016-12-19T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-10012 - Bugzilla