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USN-1707-1: libssh vulnerability

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USN-1707-1: libssh vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/05/2013
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/06/2013
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

The publickey_from_privatekey function in libssh before 0.5.4, when no algorithm is matched during negotiations, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via a "Client: Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange Init" packet.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libssh-4

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