ubuntu · CVE-2017-15906

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Priority: low Published: 2017-10-25 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:27:26 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2017-15906 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (openssh), 12 status rows across 12 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, trusty, upstream, xenial, zesty): released 11, ignored 1.

Description:

The process_open function in sftp-server.c in OpenSSH before 7.6 does not properly prevent write operations in readonly mode, which allows attackers to create zero-length files.

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