Issued:
2020-09-29
Updated:
2020-09-29

RHSA-2020:3915 - Moderate: libssh2 security update

Synopsis

Moderate: libssh2 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

An update for libssh2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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.

Description

The libssh2 packages provide a library that implements the SSH2 protocol.

Security Fix(es):

  • libssh2: integer overflow in SSH_MSG_DISCONNECT logic in packet.c (CVE-2019-17498)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

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 libssh2 must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian7ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian7ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems7s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian7ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian7ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems)7s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop7x86_64

Updated Packages

  • libssh2-1.8.0-4.el7.s390.rpm
  • libssh2-debuginfo-1.8.0-4.el7.s390.rpm
  • libssh2-debuginfo-1.8.0-4.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • libssh2-1.8.0-4.el7.src.rpm
  • libssh2-devel-1.8.0-4.el7.s390.rpm
  • libssh2-debuginfo-1.8.0-4.el7.i686.rpm
  • libssh2-1.8.0-4.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • libssh2-1.8.0-4.el7.ppc64.rpm
  • libssh2-1.8.0-4.el7.i686.rpm
  • libssh2-devel-1.8.0-4.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • libssh2-docs-1.8.0-4.el7.noarch.rpm
  • libssh2-1.8.0-4.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • libssh2-devel-1.8.0-4.el7.i686.rpm
  • libssh2-debuginfo-1.8.0-4.el7.ppc.rpm
  • libssh2-1.8.0-4.el7.ppc.rpm
  • libssh2-debuginfo-1.8.0-4.el7.ppc64.rpm
  • libssh2-1.8.0-4.el7.s390x.rpm
  • libssh2-debuginfo-1.8.0-4.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • libssh2-devel-1.8.0-4.el7.ppc.rpm
  • libssh2-devel-1.8.0-4.el7.ppc64.rpm
  • libssh2-devel-1.8.0-4.el7.s390x.rpm
  • libssh2-devel-1.8.0-4.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • libssh2-debuginfo-1.8.0-4.el7.s390x.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information