The version of libssh installed on the remote host is prior to 0.10.6. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SSA:2023-353-01 advisory.

  - The SSH transport protocol with certain OpenSSH extensions, found in OpenSSH before 9.6 and other     products, allows remote attackers to bypass integrity checks such that some packets are omitted (from the     extension negotiation message), and a client and server may consequently end up with a connection for     which some security features have been downgraded or disabled, aka a Terrapin attack. This occurs because     the SSH Binary Packet Protocol (BPP), implemented by these extensions, mishandles the handshake phase and     mishandles use of sequence numbers. For example, there is an effective attack against SSH's use of     ChaCha20-Poly1305 (and CBC with Encrypt-then-MAC). The bypass occurs in chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com and     (if CBC is used) the -etm@openssh.com MAC algorithms. This also affects Maverick Synergy Java SSH API     before 3.1.0-SNAPSHOT, Dropbear through 2022.83, Ssh before 5.1.1 in Erlang/OTP, PuTTY before 0.80,     AsyncSSH before 2.14.2, golang.org/x/crypto before 0.17.0, libssh before 0.10.6, libssh2 through 1.11.0,     Thorn Tech SFTP Gateway before 3.4.6, Tera Term before 5.1, Paramiko before 3.4.0, jsch before 0.2.15,     SFTPGo before 2.5.6, Netgate pfSense Plus through 23.09.1, Netgate pfSense CE through 2.7.2, HPN-SSH     through 18.2.0, ProFTPD 1.3.9rc1, ORYX CycloneSSH before 2.3.4, NetSarang XShell 7 before Build 0144,     CrushFTP before 10.6.0, ConnectBot SSH library before 2.2.22, the mscdex ssh2 module before 1.15.0 for     Node.js, the thrussh library before 0.35.1 for Rust, and the Russh crate before 0.40.2 for Rust; and there     could be effects on Bitvise SSH through 9.31. (CVE-2023-48795)

  - A flaw was found in the libssh implements abstract layer for message digest (MD) operations implemented by     different supported crypto backends. The return values from these were not properly checked, which could     cause low-memory situations failures, NULL dereferences, crashes, or usage of the uninitialized memory as     an input for the KDF. In this case, non-matching keys will result in decryption/integrity failures,     terminating the connection. (CVE-2023-6918)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Slackware Linux 14.2 / 15.0 / current libssh Multiple Vulnerabilities (SSA:2023-353-01)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 187107

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