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Gentoo: GLSA-201408-03 Low: LibSSH Information Disclosure Risk

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Calendar Grey August 10, 2014
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Gentoo Linux has released a security advisory about a low-severity LibSSH vulnerability that may lead to unintended private key disclosure, risking secure communications. Administrators should review their systems and apply updates to mitigate this risk efficiently.
A vulnerability in LibSSH can result in leakage of private key information.

Summary

A new connection inherits the state of the PRNG without re-seeding with random data.

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Resolution

All LibSSH users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-libs/libssh-0.6.3"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2014-0017 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-0017

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201408-03
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

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Severity: Low
Title: LibSSH: Information disclosure
Date: August 10, 2014
Bugs: #503504
ID: 201408-03

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security advisory Gentoo security issue private key low severity information disclosure LibSSH

Synopsis

A vulnerability in LibSSH can result in leakage of private key information.

Background

LibSSH is a C library providing SSHv2 and SSHv1.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-libs/libssh < 0.6.3 >= 0.6.3

Impact

===== Servers using ECC (ECDSA) or DSA certificates in non-deterministic mode may under certain conditions leak their private key.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.