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Canonical Patches Critical OpenSSH Vulnerabilities in All Supported Ubuntu OSes

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Marius Nestor
Jan 14, 2016

The OpenBSD project issued earlier a press release informing everyone about a critical security vulnerability discovered recently in the OpenSSH versions 5.4 to 7.1, which could allow an attacker to steal sensitive data, including private user keys. Canonical was quick to update the OpenSSH packages in all these OSes in the same day.
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Marius Nestor

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