Issued:

2017-08-01

Updated:

2017-08-01

RHSA-2017:2029 - Moderate: openssh security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Synopsis

Moderate: openssh security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

An update for openssh is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

OpenSSH is an SSH protocol implementation supported by a number of Linux, UNIX, and similar operating systems. It includes the core files necessary for both the OpenSSH client and server.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: openssh (7.4p1). (BZ#1341754)

Security Fix(es):

• A covert timing channel flaw was found in the way OpenSSH handled authentication of non-existent users. A remote unauthenticated attacker could possibly use this flaw to determine valid user names by measuring the timing of server responses. (CVE-2016-6210)

• It was found that OpenSSH did not limit password lengths for password authentication. A remote unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to temporarily trigger high CPU consumption in sshd by sending long passwords. (CVE-2016-6515)

• It was found that ssh-agent could load PKCS#11 modules from arbitrary paths. An attacker having control of the forwarded agent-socket on the server, and the ability to write to the filesystem of the client host, could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running ssh-agent. (CVE-2016-10009)

• It was found that the host private key material could possibly leak to the privilege-separated child processes via re-allocated memory. An attacker able to compromise the privilege-separated process could therefore obtain the leaked key information. (CVE-2016-10011)

• It was found that the boundary checks in the code implementing support for pre-authentication compression could have been optimized out by certain compilers. An attacker able to compromise the privilege-separated process could possibly use this flaw for further attacks against the privileged monitor process. (CVE-2016-10012)

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

After installing this update, the OpenSSH server daemon (sshd) will be restarted automatically.

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• openssh-7.4p1-11.el7.x86_64.rpm
• openssh-server-7.4p1-11.el7.aarch64.rpm
• openssh-server-sysvinit-7.4p1-11.el7.s390x.rpm
• pam_ssh_agent_auth-0.10.3-1.11.el7.ppc.rpm
• openssh-7.4p1-11.el7.ppc64le.rpm
• pam_ssh_agent_auth-0.10.3-1.11.el7.ppc64le.rpm
• openssh-server-7.4p1-11.el7.ppc64.rpm
• openssh-ldap-7.4p1-11.el7.aarch64.rpm
• pam_ssh_agent_auth-0.10.3-1.11.el7.aarch64.rpm
• pam_ssh_agent_auth-0.10.3-1.11.el7.x86_64.rpm
• openssh-keycat-7.4p1-11.el7.ppc64.rpm
• openssh-7.4p1-11.el7.s390x.rpm
• openssh-debuginfo-7.4p1-11.el7.ppc64.rpm
• openssh-clients-7.4p1-11.el7.aarch64.rpm
• openssh-keycat-7.4p1-11.el7.s390x.rpm
• pam_ssh_agent_auth-0.10.3-1.11.el7.s390x.rpm
• openssh-clients-7.4p1-11.el7.ppc64.rpm
• openssh-ldap-7.4p1-11.el7.x86_64.rpm
• openssh-server-sysvinit-7.4p1-11.el7.aarch64.rpm
• pam_ssh_agent_auth-0.10.3-1.11.el7.s390.rpm
• openssh-cavs-7.4p1-11.el7.x86_64.rpm
• openssh-cavs-7.4p1-11.el7.aarch64.rpm
• openssh-keycat-7.4p1-11.el7.x86_64.rpm
• openssh-server-7.4p1-11.el7.x86_64.rpm
• openssh-7.4p1-11.el7.aarch64.rpm
• pam_ssh_agent_auth-0.10.3-1.11.el7.ppc64.rpm
• openssh-askpass-7.4p1-11.el7.ppc64le.rpm
• openssh-server-sysvinit-7.4p1-11.el7.ppc64.rpm
• openssh-cavs-7.4p1-11.el7.ppc64.rpm
• openssh-server-sysvinit-7.4p1-11.el7.ppc64le.rpm
• openssh-cavs-7.4p1-11.el7.s390x.rpm
• openssh-7.4p1-11.el7.src.rpm
• openssh-clients-7.4p1-11.el7.x86_64.rpm
• openssh-debuginfo-7.4p1-11.el7.s390.rpm
• openssh-server-sysvinit-7.4p1-11.el7.x86_64.rpm
• openssh-7.4p1-11.el7.ppc64.rpm
• openssh-askpass-7.4p1-11.el7.s390x.rpm
• openssh-debuginfo-7.4p1-11.el7.s390x.rpm
• openssh-keycat-7.4p1-11.el7.aarch64.rpm
• openssh-cavs-7.4p1-11.el7.ppc64le.rpm
• openssh-server-7.4p1-11.el7.ppc64le.rpm
• openssh-debuginfo-7.4p1-11.el7.ppc64le.rpm
• openssh-ldap-7.4p1-11.el7.ppc64.rpm
• pam_ssh_agent_auth-0.10.3-1.11.el7.i686.rpm
• openssh-ldap-7.4p1-11.el7.ppc64le.rpm
• openssh-debuginfo-7.4p1-11.el7.i686.rpm
• openssh-askpass-7.4p1-11.el7.x86_64.rpm
• openssh-askpass-7.4p1-11.el7.ppc64.rpm
• openssh-debuginfo-7.4p1-11.el7.aarch64.rpm
• openssh-debuginfo-7.4p1-11.el7.ppc.rpm
• openssh-askpass-7.4p1-11.el7.aarch64.rpm
• openssh-ldap-7.4p1-11.el7.s390x.rpm
• openssh-server-7.4p1-11.el7.s390x.rpm
• openssh-clients-7.4p1-11.el7.s390x.rpm
• openssh-debuginfo-7.4p1-11.el7.x86_64.rpm
• openssh-clients-7.4p1-11.el7.ppc64le.rpm
• openssh-keycat-7.4p1-11.el7.ppc64le.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1357442
• This content is not included.BZ - 1360973
• This content is not included.BZ - 1364935
• This content is not included.BZ - 1366400
• This content is not included.BZ - 1373835
• This content is not included.BZ - 1375179
• This content is not included.BZ - 1381997
• This content is not included.BZ - 1396400
• This content is not included.BZ - 1398569
• This content is not included.BZ - 1402424
• This content is not included.BZ - 1406269
• This content is not included.BZ - 1406286
• This content is not included.BZ - 1406293
• This content is not included.BZ - 1418062
• This content is not included.BZ - 1420910
• This content is not included.BZ - 1438414
• This content is not included.BZ - 1450361

CVEs

• CVE-2016-6210
• CVE-2016-6515
• CVE-2016-10009
• CVE-2016-10011
• CVE-2016-10012
• CVE-2016-10708

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/7.4_Release_Notes/index.html

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.