CVE-2015-6564
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2015-08-11 | |
| Impact: | Moderate | What is this? |
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in the mm_answer_pam_free_ctx function inmonitor.c in sshd in OpenSSH before 7.0 on non-OpenBSD platforms might allow local users to gain privileges by leveraging control of the sshd uid to send an unexpectedly early MONITOR_REQ_PAM_FREE_CTX request.
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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v2 metrics
| Base Score: | 4.0 |
| Vector String: | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N |
| Version: | 2.0 |
| Attack Vector: | Network |
| Attack Complexity: | High |
| Authentication: | None |
| Confidentiality Impact: | Partial |
| Integrity Impact: | Partial |
| Availability Impact: | None |
Errata information
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
| Oracle Linux version 6 (openssh) | ELSA-2016-0741 | 2016-05-12 |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (openssh) | ELSA-2015-2088 | 2015-11-23 |
| Oracle VM version 3.3 (openssh) | OVMSA-2016-0048 | 2016-05-13 |
| Oracle VM version 3.4 (openssh) | OVMSA-2016-0048 | 2016-05-13 |
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