ubuntu · CVE-2016-0777

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Priority: high Published: 2016-01-14 17:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 21:51:05 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-0777 high priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (openssh), 5 status rows across 5 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, vivid, wily): released 5.

Description:

The resend_bytes function in roaming_common.c in the client in OpenSSH 5.x, 6.x, and 7.x before 7.1p2 allows remote servers to obtain sensitive information from process memory by requesting transmission of an entire buffer, as demonstrated by reading a private key.

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