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Debian 12 DSA-5591-1: Moderate Libssh Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey December 28, 2023
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The Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5091-1 discloses critical flaws within the libexec library that could allow unauthorized remote exploitation.
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in libssh, a tiny C SSH library

Summary

CVE-2023-6004

It was reported that using the ProxyCommand or the ProxyJump feature
may allow an attacker to inject malicious code through specially
crafted hostnames.

CVE-2023-6918

Jack Weinstein reported that missing checks for return values for
digests may result in denial of service (application crashes) or
usage of uninitialized memory.

CVE-2023-48795

Fabian Baeumer, Marcus Brinkmann and Joerg Schwenk discovered that
the SSH protocol is prone to a prefix truncation attack, known as
the "Terrapin attack". This attack allows a MITM attacker to effect
a limited break of the integrity of the early encrypted SSH
transport protocol by sending extra messages prior to the
commencement of encryption, and deleting an equal number of
consecutive messages immediately after encryption starts.

Details can be found at https://terrapin-attack.com/

For the oldstable distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed
in version 0.9.8-0+deb11u1.

For the st...

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Package: libssh
CVE ID: CVE-2023-6004 CVE-2023-6918 CVE-2023-48795

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