LWN.net Logo

Not logged in

Log in now

Create an account

Subscribe to LWN

Recent Features

Kernel prepatch 3.9-rc6

LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 4, 2013

LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 28, 2013

A kernel change breaks GlusterFS

PyCon: Evangelizing Python

Printable page
Weekly edition Kernel Security Distributions Contact Us Search
Archives Calendar Subscribe Write for LWN LWN.net FAQ Sponsors

libssh: denial of service

Package(s):libssh CVE #(s):CVE-2013-0176
Created:January 28, 2013 Updated:March 29, 2013
Description: From the Ubuntu advisory:

Yong Chuan Koh discovered that libssh incorrectly handled certain negotiation requests. A remote attacker could use this to cause libssh to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-1707-1 2013-01-28
Fedora FEDORA-2013-1407 2013-02-02
Fedora FEDORA-2013-1422 2013-02-02
Mageia MGASA-2013-0033 2013-02-06
Mandriva MDVSA-2013:009 2013-02-09
Slackware SSA:2013-087-01 2013-03-28
Mandriva MDVSA-2013:045 2013-04-05
(Log in to post comments)

Copyright © 2013, Eklektix, Inc.
Comments and public postings are copyrighted by their creators.
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds