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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-425-1 libssh -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

23 Feb 2016

Affected Packages:

libssh

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-0739.

More information:

Aris Adamantiadis of the libssh team discovered that libssh, an SSH2 protocol implementation used by many applications, did not generate sufficiently long Diffie-Hellman secrets.

This vulnerability could be exploited by an eavesdropper to decrypt and to intercept SSH sessions.

For the oldoldstable distribution (squeeze), this has been fixed in version 0.4.5-3+squeeze3.

For the oldstable (wheezy) and stable (jessie) distributions, this will be fixed soon.