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Re:35-year-old vulnerability discovered in scp by joelthelion on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @03:15AM (#18909545)
I think what it's saying is that in the event you connect to a malicious server, that server is able to do more damage to the client than it ought to.

Should be fixed, but clearly not the worse vulnerability ever.

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Re:35-year-old vulnerability discovered in scp by dmurray on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @06:46AM (#18910480)
That's the definition of, for example, all browser security issues.
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