Canonical released an update for the OpenSSH packages in the Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf), Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr), and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating systems.
The update appears to be an important one that patches a total of four security flaws discovered by various developers in the OpenSSH secure shell (SSH) implementation that Ubuntu Linux users can use to access remote machines securely.
The first security issue (CVE-2015-8325) was discovered by Shayan Sadigh in the way OpenSSH handles environment files, which failed to work correctly when the UseLogin feature was enabled, allowing a local attacker to gain root access.
The second vulnerability (CVE-2016-1907), affecting only Ubuntu 15.10 users,… (read more)
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