CVE-2016-3116

NameCVE-2016-3116
DescriptionCRLF injection vulnerability in Dropbear SSH before 2016.72 allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended shell-command restrictions via crafted X11 forwarding data.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
dropbear (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)2014.65-1+deb8u3fixed
stretch2016.74-5+deb9u1fixed
buster (security), buster, buster (lts)2018.76-5+deb10u2fixed
bullseye2020.81-3+deb11u2fixed
bookworm2022.83-1+deb12u2fixed
sid, trixie2024.86-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
dropbearsourcejessie2014.65-1+deb8u1
dropbearsource(unstable)2016.72-1

Notes

[wheezy] - dropbear <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/CHANGES
Fixed in 2016.72 upstream

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