Mageia 7: Urgent Fix for Libssh DoS Vulnerability in MGASA-2020-0324
mageia
August 18, 2020
The code in src/sftpserver.c did not verify the validity of certain pointers and expected them to be valid
Summary
The code in src/sftpserver.c did not verify the validity of certain pointersand expected them to be valid. A NULL pointer dereference could have been
occurred that typically causes a crash and thus a denial-of-service
(CVE-2020-16135).
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27036
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00034.html
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-16135
Resolution
SRPMS
- 7/core/libssh-0.8.9-1.1.mga7
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Publication date: 18 Aug 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0324.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2020-16135
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