CVE-2016-0777

Red Hat statement

This issue does not affect the version OpenSSH as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5 and 6. This issue affects the version of OpenSSH as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 in a non-default configuration. For more information please refer to https://access.redhat.com/articles/2123781

Red Hat mitigation

1. The vulnerable roaming code can be permanently disabled by adding the undocumented option "UseRoaming no" to the system-wide configuration file (usually /etc/ssh/ssh_config), or per-user configuration file (~/.ssh/config), or command-line (-o "UseRoaming no"). 2. If an OpenSSH client is disconnected from an SSH server that offers roaming, it prints "[connection suspended, press return to resume]" on stderr, and waits for '\n' or '\r' on stdin (and not on the controlling terminal) before it reconnects to the server; advanced users may become suspicious and press Control-C or Control-Z instead, thus avoiding the information leak. However, SSH commands that use the local stdin to transfer data to the remote server are bound to trigger this reconnection automatically (upon reading a '\n' or '\r' from stdin). Moreover, these non-interactive SSH commands (for example, backup scripts and cron jobs) commonly employ public-key authentication and are therefore perfect targets for this information leak.