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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-1730: NULL Pointer Dereference

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-1730: NULL Pointer Dereference

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/13/2020
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/23/2024

Description

A flaw was found in libssh versions before 0.8.9 and before 0.9.4 in the way it handled AES-CTR (or DES ciphers if enabled) ciphers. The server or client could crash when the connection hasn't been fully initialized and the system tries to cleanup the ciphers when closing the connection. The biggest threat from this vulnerability is system availability.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-libssh

References

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