Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title libssh: Arbitrary code execution
Informations
Name GLSA-201402-26 First vendor Publication 2014-02-21
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2014-02-21
Severity (Vendor) Normal Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in libssh, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause Denial of Service.

Background

libssh is a C library providing SSHv2 and SSHv1.

Description

Multiple buffer overflow, double free, and integer overflow vulnerabilities have been discovered in libssh.

Impact

A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or cause a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All libssh users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-libs/libssh-0.5.3"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2012-4559 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-4559
[ 2 ] CVE-2012-4560 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-4560
[ 3 ] CVE-2012-4561 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-4561
[ 4 ] CVE-2012-4562 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-4562
[ 5 ] CVE-2012-6063 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-6063

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201402-26.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201402-26.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
50 % CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
25 % CWE-189 Numeric Errors (CWE/SANS Top 25)
25 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17817
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17817
Title: DSA-2577-1 libssh - several
Description: Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in libssh by Florian Weimer and Xi Wang:
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-2577-1
CVE-2012-4559
CVE-2012-4561
CVE-2012-4562
CVE-2012-6063
 Version: 7
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 6.0
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 6.0
 Product(s): libssh
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17868
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17868
Title: USN-1640-1 -- libssh vulnerabilities
Description: linssh could be made to crash or run programs if it received specially crafted network traffic.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-1640-1
CVE-2012-4559
CVE-2012-4560
CVE-2012-4561
CVE-2012-4562
 Version: 7
Platform(s): Ubuntu 12.10
Ubuntu 12.04
Ubuntu 11.10
Ubuntu 10.04
 Product(s): libssh
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 8

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2012-12-10 Name : Fedora Update for libssh FEDORA-2012-18687
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2012_18687_libssh_fc16.nasl
2012-12-04 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 2577-1 (libssh)
File : nvt/deb_2577_1.nasl
2012-12-04 Name : Mandriva Update for libssh MDVSA-2012:175 (libssh)
File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVSA_2012_175.nasl
2012-11-29 Name : Fedora Update for libssh FEDORA-2012-18677
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2012_18677_libssh_fc17.nasl
2012-11-29 Name : Ubuntu Update for libssh USN-1640-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_1640_1.nasl

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2012-836.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2012-840.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-02-23 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201402-26.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-04-20 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2013-045.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-01-25 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_libssh2-121120.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-12-07 Name : The remote Slackware host is missing a security update.
File : Slackware_SSA_2012-341-02.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-12-07 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2012-18687.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-12-03 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-2577.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-11-30 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2012-175.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-11-29 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2012-18677.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-11-27 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2012-18610.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-11-27 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-1640-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2014-02-23 13:21:10
  • Multiple Updates
2014-02-21 21:19:27
  • First insertion