MGASA-2017-0165: dropbear Mageia

Published
Published 10-06-2017Last modified 16-04-2026

Vulnerability summary

MGASA-2017-0165 is a vulnerability in dropbear Mageia with no CVSS score yet.

Priority
Insufficient evidence

No CVSS vector published; no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
Not scored
010
No CVSS score recorded
EPSS scoreNot scoredRisk metrics not yet published.
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 2 · Downstream 0
CVE-2017-9078CVE-2017-9079

Timeline

  1. 10-06-2017
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 16-04-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Updated dropbear packages fix security vulnerability A double-free in the server could be triggered by an authenticated user if dropbear is running with -a (CVE-2017-9078). The default Mageia configuration does not set -a, so is not vulnerable Dropbear parsed authorized_keys as root, even if it were a symlink. The fix is to switch to user permissions when opening authorized_keys (CVE-2017-9079)

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EPSS trend

No EPSS score has been published for this record yet.

Known exploited

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CISA KEV

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ENISA CNW

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CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: not stated in public data.

Mageia1 product
  • dropbear< 2014.66-1.3.mga5

1 vendor · 1 product

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