RHSA-2019:3702 — Security Advisory

An update for openssh is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

OpenSSH is an SSH protocol implementation supported by a number of Linux, UNIX, and similar operating systems. It includes the core files necessary for both the OpenSSH client and server.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: openssh (8.0p1). (BZ#1691045)

Security Fix(es):

• openssh: scp client improper directory name validation (CVE-2018-20685)

• openssh: Improper validation of object names allows malicious server to overwrite files via scp client (CVE-2019-6111)

• openssh: Missing character encoding in progress display allows for spoofing of scp client output (CVE-2019-6109)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.