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Red Hat: CVE-2023-27538: SSH connection too eager reuse still (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2023-27538: SSH connection too eager reuse still (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/30/2023
Created
11/09/2023
Added
11/08/2023
Modified
12/15/2023

Description

An authentication bypass vulnerability exists in libcurl prior to v8.0.0 where it reuses a previously established SSH connection despite the fact that an SSH option was modified, which should have prevented reuse. libcurl maintains a pool of previously used connections to reuse them for subsequent transfers if the configurations match. However, two SSH settings were omitted from the configuration check, allowing them to match easily, potentially leading to the reuse of an inappropriate connection.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-curl
  • redhat-upgrade-curl-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-curl-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-curl-minimal
  • redhat-upgrade-curl-minimal-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-libcurl
  • redhat-upgrade-libcurl-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-libcurl-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-libcurl-minimal
  • redhat-upgrade-libcurl-minimal-debuginfo

References

  • CVE-2023-27538
  • RHSA-2023:6679

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