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Arch Linux: 202004-11 Medium: Denial Of Service in libssh Exploit

Calendar Apr 10, 2020 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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The package libssh before version 0.9.4-1 is vulnerable to denial of service. 
Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-202004-11
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Severity: Medium
Date    : 2020-04-09
CVE-ID  : CVE-2020-1730
Package : libssh
Type    : denial of service
Remote  : Yes
Link    : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-1130

Summary
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The package libssh before version 0.9.4-1 is vulnerable to denial of
service.

Resolution
=========
Upgrade to 0.9.4-1.

# pacman -Syu "libssh>=0.9.4-1"

The problem has been fixed upstream in version 0.9.4.

Workaround
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This issue can be mitigated by disabling AES-CTR ciphers.

Description
==========
A malicious client or server could crash the counterpart implemented
with libssh before 0.9.4. When AES-CTR ciphers are used and don't get
fully initialized, libssh will crash when it tries to cleanup the AES-CTR ciphers when closing the connection.

Impact
=====
A malicious client or server could crash the counterpart via a crafted
SSH connection.

References
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https://www.libssh.org/security/advisories/CVE-2020-1730.txt
https://git.libssh.org/projects/libssh.git/commit/?h=stable-0.9&id=958afb1c6ad671fe2a8d671702a88843bb78fc38
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2020-1730