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RHEL 7 : libssh2 (RHSA-2015:2140)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 86932

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated libssh2 packages that fix one security issue and two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Low security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

The libssh2 packages provide a library that implements the SSH2 protocol.

A flaw was found in the way the kex_agree_methods() function of libssh2 performed a key exchange when negotiating a new SSH session. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use a crafted SSH_MSG_KEXINIT packet to crash a connecting libssh2 client. (CVE-2015-1782)

This update also fixes the following bugs :

* Previously, libssh2 did not correctly adjust the size of the receive window while reading from an SSH channel. This caused downloads over the secure copy (SCP) protocol to consume an excessive amount of memory. A series of upstream patches has been applied on the libssh2 source code to improve handling of the receive window size. Now, SCP downloads work as expected. (BZ#1080459)

* Prior to this update, libssh2 did not properly initialize an internal variable holding the SSH agent file descriptor, which caused the agent destructor to close the standard input file descriptor by mistake. An upstream patch has been applied on libssh2 sources to properly initialize the internal variable. Now, libssh2 closes only the file descriptors it owns. (BZ#1147717)

All libssh2 users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. After installing these updated packages, all running applications using libssh2 must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:2140

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-1782

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 86932

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2015-2140.nasl

Version: 2.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/19/2015

Updated: 10/24/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libssh2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libssh2-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libssh2-docs, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.3, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.4, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.5, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.2, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libssh2-debuginfo

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/19/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/13/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-1782

RHSA: 2015:2140