Advisories » MGASA-2020-0324

Updated libssh packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 18 Aug 2020
Modification date: 18 Aug 2020
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2020-16135

Description

The code in src/sftpserver.c did not verify the validity of certain pointers
and expected them to be valid. A NULL pointer dereference could have been
occurred that typically causes a crash and thus a denial-of-service
(CVE-2020-16135).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27036
• https://www.debian.org/lts/security/2020/dla-2303
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-16135

SRPMS

7/core

• libssh-0.8.9-1.1.mga7