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Debian: DLA-3559-1 Moderate: Libssh2 Denial Of Service Issue

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Calendar Grey September 8, 2023
Dist Debian Esm H88
Ubuntu issued notice USN-5304-1 for libssh, tackling severe vulnerabilities to prevent potential downtime and safeguard sensitive information.
Vulnerabilities were found in libssh2, a client-side C library implementing the SSH2 protocol, which could lead to denial of service or remote information disclosure

Summary

CVE-2019-13115

Kevin Backhouse discovered an integer overflow vulnerability in kex.c's
kex_method_diffie_hellman_group_exchange_sha256_key_exchange()
function, which could lead to an out-of-bounds read in the way
packets are read from the server. A remote attacker who compromises
an SSH server may be able to disclose sensitive information or cause
a denial of service condition on the client system when a user
connects to the server.

CVE-2019-17498

Kevin Backhouse discovered that the SSH_MSG_DISCONNECT logic in
packet.c has an integer overflow in a bounds check, thereby enabling
an attacker to specify an arbitrary (out-of-bounds) offset for a
subsequent memory read. A malicious SSH server may be able to
disclose sensitive information or cause a denial of service
condition on the client system when a user connects to the server.

CVE-2020-22218

An issue was discovered in function _libssh2_packet_add(), which

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Package: libssh2
Version: 1.8.0-2.1+deb10u1
CVE ID: CVE-2019-13115 CVE-2019-17498 CVE-2020-22218
Debian Bug: 932329 943562

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