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Medium ALAS2023-2025-865 1 CVE

Moderate: openssh security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Feb 26, 2025 · Updated Mar 5, 2025

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 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 11

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 openssh 0:8.7p1-8.amzn2023.0.14
Amazon Linux · 2023 openssh-clients 0:8.7p1-8.amzn2023.0.14
Amazon Linux · 2023 openssh-clients-debuginfo 0:8.7p1-8.amzn2023.0.14
Amazon Linux · 2023 openssh-debuginfo 0:8.7p1-8.amzn2023.0.14
Amazon Linux · 2023 openssh-debugsource 0:8.7p1-8.amzn2023.0.14
Amazon Linux · 2023 openssh-keycat 0:8.7p1-8.amzn2023.0.14
Amazon Linux · 2023 openssh-keycat-debuginfo 0:8.7p1-8.amzn2023.0.14
Amazon Linux · 2023 openssh-server 0:8.7p1-8.amzn2023.0.14
Amazon Linux · 2023 openssh-server-debuginfo 0:8.7p1-8.amzn2023.0.14
Amazon Linux · 2023 pam_ssh_agent_auth 0:0.10.4-4.8.amzn2023.0.14
Amazon Linux · 2023 pam_ssh_agent_auth-debuginfo 0:0.10.4-4.8.amzn2023.0.14

Vulnerabilities 1

References

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