Daily Archives: 2024-07-11

OpenSSH bug leaves RHEL 9 and the RHELatives vulnerable

Source: The Register

Article note: Man The Register has produced some good wordplay over the years. I will be referring to RHEL-like distributions (Alma, CentOS, Oracle, Rocky, SLL, etc.) as RHELatives (R-hel-atives) from now on.

Newly discovered flaw affects OpenSSH 8.7 and 8.8 daemon

The founder of Openwall has discovered a new signal handler race condition in the core sshd daemon used in RHEL 9.x and its various offshoots.…

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