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 OpenSSH 9.9p1 Vulnerable CVE-2025-26466

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Scott Gruber posted Wed February 26, 2025 10:15 AM

Tenables Nessus has flagged our servers as vulnerable with OpenSSH 9.9p1 installed saying :

"The version of OpenSSH installed on the remote host is prior to 9.9p2. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the release-9.9p2 advisory. sshd(8) in OpenSSH versions 9.5p1 to 9.9p1 (inclusive) is vulnerable to a memory/CPU denial-of-service related to the handling of SSH2_MSG_PING packets. This condition may be mitigated using the existing PerSourcePenalties feature"

Please provide an ETA for a fix.

Thanks

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Stephen Ulmer IBM Champion

I do not speak for the Toolbox maintainers.

However, note that OpenSSH is provided as part of AIX, not by the maintainers of the AIX Toolbox. You should be able to open a PMR for this and get an ETA on the update from AIX support.