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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