| Name | CVE-2015-6563 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-1500-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 795711 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| openssh (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1:6.7p1-5+deb8u10 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 1:7.4p1-10+deb9u6 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 1:7.4p1-10+deb9u9 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 1:7.9p1-10+deb10u4 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 1:8.4p1-5+deb11u3 | fixed |
| bookworm (security), bookworm | 1:9.2p1-2+deb12u3 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1:9.9p1-3 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[wheezy] - openssh <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[squeeze] - openssh <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://anongit.mindrot.org/openssh.git/commit/?id=d4697fe9a28dab7255c60433e4dd23cf7fce8a8b
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/11/9