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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-2285
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2008-2285

Description:
The ssh-vulnkey tool on Ubuntu Linux 7.04, 7.10, and 8.04 LTS does not recognize authorized_keys lines that contain options, which makes it easier for remote attackers to exploit CVE-2008-0166 by guessing a key that was not identified by this tool.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/42568

UBUNTU
  http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-612-5


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