Fedora 21 : libssh2-1.5.0-1.fc21 (2015-3797)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 81960

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update, to the current upstream release version, contains numerous bug fixes and enhancements as described in the RELEASE-NOTES file.

These include a security fix for CVE-2015-1782 :

A malicious attacker could man in the middle a real server and cause libssh2-using clients to crash (denial of service) or otherwise read and use completely unintended memory areas in this process. There are no known exploits of this flaw at this time.

See http://www.libssh2.org/adv_20150311.html for further details.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected libssh2 package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 81960

File Name: fedora_2015-3797.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 3/20/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libssh2, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:21

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/13/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-1782

BID: 73061

FEDORA: 2015-3797

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