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Fedora alert FEDORA-2013-1407 (libssh)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: libssh-0.5.4-1.fc18
Date:  Sat, 02 Feb 2013 04:28:22 +0000
Message-ID:  <20130202042822.39D9420D4D@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2013-1407 2013-01-24 21:19:57 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : libssh Product : Fedora 18 Version : 0.5.4 Release : 1.fc18 URL : http://www.libssh.org/ Summary : A library implementing the SSH2 protocol (0xbadc0de version) Description : The ssh library was designed to be used by programmers needing a working SSH implementation by the mean of a library. The complete control of the client is made by the programmer. With libssh, you can remotely execute programs, transfer files, use a secure and transparent tunnel for your remote programs. With its Secure FTP implementation, you can play with remote files easily, without third-party programs others than libcrypto (from openssl). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Fixed NULL dereference leads to denial of service - CVE-2013-0176, several NULL pointer dereferences in SSHv1, a free crash bug in options parsing. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Wed Jan 23 2013 Petr Lautrbach <plautrba@redhat.com> 0.5.4-1 - update to security 0.5.4 release - CVE-2013-0176 (#894407) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #894407 - CVE-2013-0176 libssh: NULL dereference leads to denial of service https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=894407 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update libssh' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-...


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