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New OpenSSH Vulnerability Could Lead to RCE as Root on Linux Systems
2024-07-01 10:50

OpenSSH maintainers have released security updates to contain a critical security flaw that could result in unauthenticated remote code execution with root privileges in glibc-based Linux systems. The vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-6387. It resides in the OpenSSH server component, also known as sshd, which is designed to listen for connections from any of the client


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Related Vulnerability

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2024-07-01 CVE-2024-6387 Race Condition vulnerability in multiple products
A security regression (CVE-2006-5051) was discovered in OpenSSH's server (sshd).
8.1

Related vendor

VENDOR LAST 12M #/PRODUCTS LOW MEDIUM HIGH CRITICAL TOTAL VULNS
Linux 11 65 3003 1800 67 4935