| Name | CVE-2008-5161 |
| Description | Error handling in the SSH protocol in (1) SSH Tectia Client and Server and Connector 4.0 through 4.4.11, 5.0 through 5.2.4, and 5.3 through 5.3.8; Client and Server and ConnectSecure 6.0 through 6.0.4; Server for Linux on IBM System z 6.0.4; Server for IBM z/OS 5.5.1 and earlier, 6.0.0, and 6.0.1; and Client 4.0-J through 4.3.3-J and 4.0-K through 4.3.10-K; and (2) OpenSSH 4.7p1 and possibly other versions, when using a block cipher algorithm in Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) mode, makes it easier for remote attackers to recover certain plaintext data from an arbitrary block of ciphertext in an SSH session via unknown vectors. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 506115 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| openssh (PTS) | bullseye (security), bullseye | 1:8.4p1-5+deb11u3 | fixed |
| bookworm, bookworm (security) | 1:9.2p1-2+deb12u3 | fixed | |
| sid, trixie | 1:9.9p1-3 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| openssh | source | (unstable) | 1:5.1p1-5 | low | 506115 |
[etch] - openssh <no-dsa> (Minor issue, see http://www.openssh.org/txt/cbc.adv)