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851 Over 14 Million Servers May Be Vulnerable To OpenSSH's 'RegreSSHion' RCE Flaw

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 07/02/2024 23:30 EDT

Over 14 Million Servers May Be Vulnerable To OpenSSH's 'RegreSSHion' RCE Flaw

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet, written by Steven Vaughan-Nichols: Hold onto your SSH keys, folks! A critical vulnerability has just rocked OpenSSH, Linux's secure remote access foundation, causing seasoned sysadmins to break out in a cold sweat. Dubbed "regreSSHion" and tagged as CVE-2024-6387, this nasty bug allows unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) on OpenSSH servers running on glibc-based Linux systems. We're not talking about some minor privilege escalation here -- this flaw ha

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