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RHEL 7 : libssh (RHSA-2016:0566)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 90302

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Synopsis

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

Description

An update for libssh is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras.

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

libssh is a library which implements the SSH protocol. It can be used to implement client and server applications.

Security Fix(es) :

* A type confusion issue was found in the way libssh generated ephemeral secrets for the diffie-hellman-group1 and diffie-hellman-group14 key exchange methods. This would cause an SSHv2 Diffie-Hellman handshake to use significantly less secure random parameters. (CVE-2016-0739)

Red Hat would like to thank Aris Adamantiadis for reporting this issue.

Solution

Update the affected libssh, libssh-debuginfo and / or libssh-devel packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0566

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-0739

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 90302

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2016-0566.nasl

Version: 2.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/1/2016

Updated: 10/24/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libssh, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libssh-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libssh-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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: 3/31/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/13/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-0739

RHSA: 2016:0566