RHSA-2016:0566
Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2016-03-31 23:20 - Updated: 2025-11-21 17:55Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: libssh security update
Severity
Moderate
Notes
Topic: An update for libssh is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Details: libssh is a library which implements the SSH protocol. It can be used to implement client and server applications.
Security Fix(es):
* A type confusion issue was found in the way libssh generated ephemeral secrets for the diffie-hellman-group1 and diffie-hellman-group14 key exchange methods. This would cause an SSHv2 Diffie-Hellman handshake to use significantly less secure random parameters. (CVE-2016-0739)
Red Hat would like to thank Aris Adamantiadis for reporting this issue.
Terms of Use: This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original.
A type confusion issue was found in the way libssh generated ephemeral secrets for the diffie-hellman-group1 and diffie-hellman-group14 key exchange methods. This would cause an SSHv2 Diffie-Hellman handshake to use significantly less secure random parameters.
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Vendor Fix
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
After installing these updated packages, all running applications using libssh must be restarted for this update to take effect.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0566
References
Acknowledgments
Aris Adamantiadis
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