CVE - CVE-2015-6563

CVE-ID
CVE-2015-6563	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
The monitor component in sshd in OpenSSH before 7.0 on non-OpenBSD platforms accepts extraneous username data in MONITOR_REQ_PAM_INIT_CTX requests, which allows local users to conduct impersonation attacks by leveraging any SSH login access in conjunction with control of the sshd uid to send a crafted MONITOR_REQ_PWNAM request, related to monitor.c and monitor_wrap.c.
References
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APPLE:APPLE-SA-2015-10-21-4 URL:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Oct/msg00005.html BID:76317 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76317 CONFIRM:http://www.openssh.com/txt/release-7.0 CONFIRM:http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.html CONFIRM:http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html CONFIRM:http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html CONFIRM:https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-412672.pdf CONFIRM:https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/commit/d4697fe9a28dab7255c60433e4dd23cf7fce8a8b CONFIRM:https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180201-0002/ CONFIRM:https://support.apple.com/HT205375 CONFIRM:https://www.broadcom.com/support/fibre-channel-networking/security-advisories/brocade-security-advisory-2019-766 FEDORA:FEDORA-2015-13469 URL:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/165170.html FULLDISC:20150813 BFS-SA-2015-002: OpenSSH PAM Privilege Separation Vulnerabilities URL:http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Aug/54 GENTOO:GLSA-201512-04 URL:https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-04 MLIST:[debian-lts-announce] 20180910 [SECURITY] [DLA 1500-1] openssh security update URL:https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00010.html MLIST:[oss-security] 20150821 Re: CVE request - OpenSSH 6.9 PAM privilege separation vulnerabilities URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/22/1 REDHAT:RHSA-2016:0741 URL:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0741.html SUSE:SUSE-SU-2015:1581 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00017.html
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20150821	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
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Assigned (20150821)
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