Fedora 23: libssh Security Update
Summary
The ssh library was designed to be used by programmers needing a working SSH
implementation by the mean of a library. The complete control of the client is
made by the programmer. With libssh, you can remotely execute programs, transfer
files, use a secure and transparent tunnel for your remote programs. With its
Secure FTP implementation, you can play with remote files easily, without
third-party programs others than libcrypto (from openssl).
Update Information:
Fix CVE-2016-0739
Change Log
References
[ 1 ] Bug #1311259 - CVE-2016-0739 libssh: bits/bytes confusion resulting in truncated Difffie-Hellman secret length [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1311259 [ 2 ] Bug #1311332 - libssh-0.7.3 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1311332
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update libssh' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .