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mageiaGentoo FoundationMGASA-2014-0119
HistoryMar 06, 2014 - 3:17 a.m.

Updated libssh package fixes security vulnerability

2014-03-0603:17:12
Gentoo Foundation
advisories.mageia.org
15

CVSS2

1.9

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

EPSS

0

Percentile

5.1%

When using libssh before 0.6.3, a libssh-based server, when accepting a new connection, forks and the child process handles the request. The RAND_bytes() function of openssl doesn’t reset its state after the fork, but simply adds the current process id (getpid) to the PRNG state, which is not guaranteed to be unique. The most important consequence is that servers using EC (ECDSA) or DSA certificates may under certain conditions leak their private key (CVE-2014-0017).

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Mageia3noarchlibssh<Β 0.5.4-1.1libssh-0.5.4-1.1.mga3
Mageia4noarchlibssh<Β 0.5.5-2.1libssh-0.5.5-2.1.mga4

CVSS2

1.9

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

EPSS

0

Percentile

5.1%