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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2017.0085
OpenSSH multiple vulnerabilities
12 January 2017
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: openssh
Publisher: FreeBSD
Operating System: FreeBSD
Impact/Access: Root Compromise -- Existing Account
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2016-10010 CVE-2016-10009
Original Bulletin:
https://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-17:01.openssh.asc
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FreeBSD-SA-17:01.openssh Security Advisory
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: OpenSSH multiple vulnerabilities
Category: contrib
Module: OpenSSH
Announced: 2017-01-11
Affects: All supported versions of FreeBSD.
Corrected: 2017-01-11 05:56:40 UTC (stable/11, 11.0-STABLE)
2017-01-11 06:01:23 UTC (releng/11.0, 11.0-RELEASE-p7)
2017-01-11 05:56:40 UTC (stable/10, 10.3-STABLE)
2017-01-11 06:01:23 UTC (releng/10.3, 10.3-RELEASE-p16)
CVE Name: CVE-2016-10009, CVE-2016-10010
For general information regarding FreeBSD Security Advisories,
including descriptions of the fields above, security branches, and the
following sections, please visit <URL:https://security.FreeBSD.org/>.
I. Background
OpenSSH is an implementation of the SSH protocol suite, providing an
encrypted and authenticated transport for a variety of services,
including remote shell access.
OpenSSH supports accessing keys provided by a PKCS#11 token.
II. Problem Description
The ssh-agent(1) agent supports loading a PKCS#11 module from outside a
trusted whitelist. An attacker can request loading of a PKCS#11 module
across forwarded agent-socket. [CVE-2016-10009]
When privilege separation is disabled, forwarded Unix domain sockets
would be created by sshd(8) with the privileges of 'root' instead of
the authenticated user. [CVE-2016-10010]
III. Impact
A remote attacker who have control of a forwarded agent-socket on a
remote system and have the ability to write files on the system
running ssh-agent(1) agent can run arbitrary code under the same user
credential. Because the attacker must already have some control on
both systems, it is relatively hard to exploit this vulnerability in
a practical attack. [CVE-2016-10009]
When privilege separation is disabled (on FreeBSD, privilege separation
is enabled by default and has to be explicitly disabled), an authenticated
attacker can potentially gain root privileges on systems running OpenSSH
server. [CVE-2016-10010]
IV. Workaround
Systems not running ssh-agent(1) and sshd(8) services are not affected.
System administrators may remove ssh-agent(1) to mitigate CVE-2016-10009.
System administrators should enable privilege separation when running
OpenSSH server, which is the FreeBSD default, to mitigate CVE-2016-10010.
V. Solution
Perform one of the following:
1) Upgrade your vulnerable system to a supported FreeBSD stable or
release / security branch (releng) dated after the correction date.
Kill all running ssh-agent(1) process and restart sshd(8) service.
A reboot is recommended but not required.
2) To update your vulnerable system via a binary patch:
Systems running a RELEASE version of FreeBSD on the i386 or amd64
platforms can be updated via the freebsd-update(8) utility:
# freebsd-update fetch
# freebsd-update install
Kill all running ssh-agent(1) process and restart sshd(8) service.
A reboot is recommended but not required.
3) To update your vulnerable system via a source code patch:
The following patches have been verified to apply to the applicable
FreeBSD release branches.
a) Download the relevant patch from the location below, and verify the
detached PGP signature using your PGP utility.
# fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-17:01/openssh.patch
# fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-17:01/openssh.patch.asc
# gpg --verify openssh.patch.asc
b) Apply the patch. Execute the following commands as root:
# cd /usr/src
# patch < /path/to/patch
c) Recompile the operating system using buildworld and installworld as
described in <URL:https://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/makeworld.html>.
Kill all running ssh-agent(1) process and restart sshd(8) service.
A reboot is recommended but not required.
VI. Correction details
The following list contains the correction revision numbers for each
affected branch.
Branch/path Revision
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stable/10/ r311915
releng/10.3/ r311916
stable/11/ r311915
releng/11.0/ r311916
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To see which files were modified by a particular revision, run the
following command, replacing NNNNNN with the revision number, on a
machine with Subversion installed:
# svn diff -cNNNNNN --summarize svn://svn.freebsd.org/base
Or visit the following URL, replacing NNNNNN with the revision number:
<URL:https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=NNNNNN>
VII. References
<URL:https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-7.4>
<URL:https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-10009>
<URL:https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-10010>
The latest revision of this advisory is available at
<URL:https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-17:01.openssh.asc>
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