The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2024-3233 advisory.

    - Fix CVE-2023-48795 Prefix truncation attack on Binary Packet Protocol (BPP)
    - Fix CVE-2023-6918 Missing checks for return values for digests
    - Fix CVE-2023-6004 ProxyCommand/ProxyJump features allow injection       of malicious code through hostname
    - Fix NULL dereference during rekeying with algorithm guessing       GHSL-2023-032 / CVE-2023-1667
    - Fix possible authentication bypass       GHSL 2023-085 / CVE-2023-2283
    - Fix CVE-2021-3634: Fix possible heap-buffer overflow when       rekeying with different key exchange mechanism
    - Fix CVE-2021-3634: Fix possible heap-buffer overflow when       rekeying with different key exchange mechanism (#1978810)
    - Fix CVE-2020-16135 NULL pointer dereference in sftpserver.c if       ssh_buffer_new returns NULL (#1862646)
    - Add a test for CVE-2019-14889
    - Fixed CVE-2019-14889 (#1781782)
    - Fixed CVE-2020-1730 (#1802422)
    - Fix more regressions introduced by the fixes for CVE-2018-10933
    - Fix regressions introduced by the fixes for CVE-2018-10933
    - resolves: #1311259 - Fix CVE-2016-0739
    - resolves: #1311332 - Update to version 0.7.3
      * Fixed CVE-2016-0739
      * Fixed ssh-agent on big endian
      * Fixed some documentation issues
    - resolves: #1213775 - Security fix for CVE-2015-3146
    - resolves: #1218076 - Security fix for CVE-2015-3146
    - Security fix for CVE-2014-8132.
    - Fix CVE-2014-0017.
    - CVE-2013-0176 (#894407)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

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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Oracle Linux 8 : libssh (ELSA-2024-3233)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 198033

Version 1.3

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.3 Nov 2, 2024, 7:54 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202411020754
Version 1.2 Sep 22, 2024, 3:24 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202409220324
Version 1.1 May 28, 2024, 11:48 PM New Plugin Feed: 202405282348