fkie_cve-2025-4878
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2025-07-22 15:15
Modified
2025-07-29 20:15
Severity ?
3.6 (Low) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
A vulnerability was found in libssh, where an uninitialized variable exists under certain conditions in the privatekey_from_file() function. This flaw can be triggered if the file specified by the filename doesn't exist and may lead to possible signing failures or heap corruption.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-4878
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2376184
secalert@redhat.comhttps://git.libssh.org/projects/libssh.git/commit/?id=697650caa97eaf7623924c75f9fcfec6dd423cd1
secalert@redhat.comhttps://git.libssh.org/projects/libssh.git/commit/?id=b35ee876adc92a208d47194772e99f9c71e0bedb
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  "lastModified": "2025-07-29T20:15:27.383",
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