Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6560-1

Ubuntu Security Notice 6560-1 - Fabian Bäumer, Marcus Brinkmann, Joerg Schwenk discovered that the SSH protocol was vulnerable to a prefix truncation attack. If a remote attacker was able to intercept SSH communications, extension negotiation messages could be truncated, possibly leading to certain algorithms and features being downgraded. This issue is known as the Terrapin attack. This update adds protocol extensions to mitigate this issue. Luci Stanescu discovered that OpenSSH incorrectly added destination constraints when smartcard keys were added to …

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