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CVE-2015-6563 affects the monitor component of sshd in OpenSSH before 7.0 on non-OpenBSD platforms. The flaw is in the handling of MONITOR_REQ_PAM_INIT_CTX requests, where the monitor accepts extraneous username data. An attacker who already has SSH login access and can control the sshd UID can abuse this condition by sending a crafted MONITOR_REQ_PWNAM request, causing the monitor logic in monitor.c and monitor_wrap.c to operate on attacker-influenced account identity data. This results in an impersonation vulnerability rather than a direct remote code execution issue.
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