ubuntu · CVE-2016-7406

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Priority: low Published: 2017-03-03 16:59:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-26 11:55:59 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2016-7406 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (dropbear), 23 status rows across 23 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, precise, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 19, DNE 1, ignored 1, needed 1, released 1.

Description:

Format string vulnerability in Dropbear SSH before 2016.74 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the (1) username or (2) host argument.

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