Ubuntu Security Update USN-6738-1: LXD vulnerability

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Fabian Bäumer, Marcus Brinkmann, and Jörg Schwenk discovered that LXD incorrectly handled the handshake phase and the use of sequence numbers in SSH Binary Packet Protocol (BPP). If a user or an automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass integrity checks.

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