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DEBIAN-CVE-2015-6563

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-6563 PUBLISHED

The monitor component in sshd in OpenSSH before 7.0 on non-OpenBSD platforms accepts extraneous username data in MONITOR_REQ_PAM_INIT_CTX requests, which allows local users to conduct impersonation attacks by leveraging any SSH login access in conjunction with control of the sshd uid to send a crafted MONITOR_REQ_PWNAM request, related to monitor.c and monitor_wrap.c.

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:12openssh0, 0, 0
Debian:13openssh0, 0, 0
Debian:11openssh0, 0, 0
Debian:14openssh0, 0, 0

Timeline

  • Aug 24, 2015 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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