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LIN9-4281 : Security Advisory - dropbear - CVE-2017-9079

Created: May 25, 2017    Updated: May 29, 2018
Resolved Date: Aug 10, 2017
Found In Version: 9.0.0.6
Fix Version: 9.0.0.7
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 9
Component/s: Userspace

Description

Dropbear before 2017.75 might allow local users to read certain files as root, if the file has the authorized_keys file format with a command= option. This occurs because ~/.ssh/authorized_keys is read with root privileges and symlinks are followed.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9079

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