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Medium ALAS2-2025-2769 1 CVE

Moderate: openssh security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Feb 26, 2025 · Updated Mar 7, 2025

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2025-26465: A vulnerability was found in OpenSSH when the VerifyHostKeyDNS option is enabled. A machine-in-the-middle attack can be performed by a malicious machine impersonating a legit server. This issue occurs due to how OpenSSH mishandles error codes in specific conditions when verifying the host key. For an attack to be considered successful, the attacker needs to manage to exhaust the client's memory resource first, turning the attack complexity high.

Fixed packages 10

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 openssh 0:7.4p1-22.amzn2.0.9
Amazon Linux · 2 openssh-askpass 0:7.4p1-22.amzn2.0.9
Amazon Linux · 2 openssh-cavs 0:7.4p1-22.amzn2.0.9
Amazon Linux · 2 openssh-clients 0:7.4p1-22.amzn2.0.9
Amazon Linux · 2 openssh-debuginfo 0:7.4p1-22.amzn2.0.9
Amazon Linux · 2 openssh-keycat 0:7.4p1-22.amzn2.0.9
Amazon Linux · 2 openssh-ldap 0:7.4p1-22.amzn2.0.9
Amazon Linux · 2 openssh-server 0:7.4p1-22.amzn2.0.9
Amazon Linux · 2 openssh-server-sysvinit 0:7.4p1-22.amzn2.0.9
Amazon Linux · 2 pam_ssh_agent_auth 0:0.10.3-2.22.amzn2.0.9

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-26465.html