CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2008-2285

Published: May 18, 2008 | Modified: Aug 08, 2017
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

The ssh-vulnkey tool on Ubuntu Linux 7.04, 7.10, and 8.04 LTS does not recognize authorized_keys lines that contain options, which makes it easier for remote attackers to exploit CVE-2008-0166 by guessing a key that was not identified by this tool.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux Ubuntu 7.04 7.04
Linux Ubuntu 8.04 8.04
Linux Ubuntu 7.10 7.10

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