USN-2478-1

It was discovered that libssh incorrectly handled certain kexinit packets. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause libssh to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / libssh

Package

Name: libssh
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/libssh@0.6.1-0ubuntu3.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

0.6.1-0ubuntu3.1

Affected versions

0.*

0.5.4-1

0.6.1-0ubuntu2

0.6.1-0ubuntu3

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libssh-4",
            "binary_version": "0.6.1-0ubuntu3.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libssh-dev",
            "binary_version": "0.6.1-0ubuntu3.1"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
    "cves": [
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2014-8132"
        }
    ]
}