CVE-2015-6565

sshd in OpenSSH 6.8 and 6.9 uses world-writable permissions for TTY devices, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (terminal disruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by writing to a device, as demonstrated by writing an escape sequence.

This issue did not affect the versions of openssh as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7.

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