[Secure-testing-team] Bug#848717: openssh: CVE-2016-10012

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: openssh
Version: 1:7.3p1-5
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for openssh.

CVE-2016-10012[0]:
|sshd(8): shared memory manager bounds checks that could be elided by
|some optimising compilers potentially allow attacks against the
|privileged monitor process from the sandboxed privilege-separation
|process

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-10012
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-10012

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed. I'm not sure
if this is a problem in practice in Debian. Source-wise it is fixed in
the new upstream version.

Regards,
Salvatore