ALAS2-2023-2046

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-3859   CVE-2019-3860  

An out of bounds read flaw was discovered in libssh2 before 1.8.1 in the _libssh2_packet_require and _libssh2_packet_requirev functions. A remote attacker who compromises a SSH server may be able to cause a Denial of Service or read data in the client memory. (CVE-2019-3859) An out of bounds read flaw was discovered in libssh2 before 1.8.1 in the way SFTP packets with empty payloads are parsed. A remote attacker who compromises a SSH server may be able to cause a Denial of Service or read data in the client memory. (CVE-2019-3860)

ALAS2-2023-2046


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-2046
Advisory Release Date: 2023-05-11 17:49 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-05-16 15:13 Pacific
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

An out of bounds read flaw was discovered in libssh4 before 1.8.1 in the _libssh4_packet_require and _libssh4_packet_requirev functions. A remote attacker who compromises a SSH server may be able to cause a Denial of Service or read data in the client memory. (CVE-2019-3859)

An out of bounds read flaw was discovered in libssh4 before 1.8.1 in the way SFTP packets with empty payloads are parsed. A remote attacker who compromises a SSH server may be able to cause a Denial of Service or read data in the client memory. (CVE-2019-3860)


Affected Packages:

libssh4


Issue Correction:
Run yum update libssh4 to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    libssh4-1.4.3-12.amzn2.2.4.aarch64
    libssh4-devel-1.4.3-12.amzn2.2.4.aarch64
    libssh4-debuginfo-1.4.3-12.amzn2.2.4.aarch64

i686:
    libssh4-1.4.3-12.amzn2.2.4.i686
    libssh4-devel-1.4.3-12.amzn2.2.4.i686
    libssh4-debuginfo-1.4.3-12.amzn2.2.4.i686

noarch:
    libssh4-docs-1.4.3-12.amzn2.2.4.noarch

src:
    libssh4-1.4.3-12.amzn2.2.4.src

x86_64:
    libssh4-1.4.3-12.amzn2.2.4.x86_64
    libssh4-devel-1.4.3-12.amzn2.2.4.x86_64
    libssh4-debuginfo-1.4.3-12.amzn2.2.4.x86_64