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Over 14M servers may be vulnerable to OpenSSH's regreSSHion RCE flaw. Here's what you need to do
OpenSSH, the bedrock of secure Linux network access, has a nasty security flaw.
A critical vulnerability has just rocked OpenSSH, Linux's secure remote access foundation, causing seasoned sysadmins to break out in a cold sweat. Dubbed " regreSSHion" and tagged as CVE-2024-6387, this nasty bug allows unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) on OpenSSH servers running on glibc-based Linux systems. Since this type of attack requires a lot of effort, you should configure your firewall and network-monitoring tools to detect and block the large number of connections needed to exploit this vulnerability.
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