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Fedora 42: FEDORA-2025-69acb71145 critical: libssh out-of-bounds read

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Calendar Grey June 27, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Latest Fedora 42 libssh patch tackles severe vulnerabilities and bugs. Urgent upgrade advised for all users.
New upstream release fixing various security issues and bugs

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:

New upstream release fixing various security issues and bugs

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue critical Fedora out-of-bounds read libssh

Change Log

* Tue Jun 24 2025 Jakub Jelen - 0.11.2-1 - New upstream release

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2374587 - CVE-2025-5318 libssh: out-of-bounds read in sftp_handle() [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2374587

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-69acb71145' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: libssh
Product: Fedora 42
Version: 0.11.2
Release: 1.fc42
URL: http://www.libssh.org
Summary: A library implementing the SSH protocol

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue critical Fedora out-of-bounds read libssh

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