suse-su-2025:20847-1
Vulnerability from csaf_suse
Published
2025-10-14 15:20
Modified
2025-10-14 15:20
Summary
Security update for libssh

Notes

Title of the patch
Security update for libssh
Description of the patch
This update for libssh fixes the following issues: - CVE-2025-8114: Fixed NULL pointer dereference when calculating the session ID during the key exchange (KEX) process (bsc#1246974) - CVE-2025-8277: Fixed Memory Exhaustion via Repeated Key Exchange (bsc#1249375)
Patchnames
SUSE-SLE-Micro-6.0-491
Terms of use
CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).


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