ubuntu · CVE-2017-9078

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Priority: medium Published: 2017-05-19 14:29:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-26 12:01:52 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2017-9078 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (dropbear), 22 status rows across 22 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 16, ignored 3, DNE 1, needed 1, released 1.

Description:

The server in Dropbear before 2017.75 might allow post-authentication root remote code execution because of a double free in cleanup of TCP listeners when the -a option is enabled.

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