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Arch Linux: Denial of service (CVE-2020-1730)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Apr 13, 2020
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

A malicious client or server could crash the counterpart implemented with libssh before 0.9.4. When AES-CTR ciphers are used and don't get fully initialized, libssh will crash when it tries to cleanup the AES-CTR ciphers when closing the connection.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

References

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