Debian Security Advisory
DLA-426-1 libssh2 -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 23 Feb 2016
- Affected Packages:
- libssh2
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-0787.
- More information:
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Andreas Schneider reported that libssh2, 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 1.2.6-1+deb6u2. Although the changelog refers to
sha256
, this version only supports DH SHA-1 key exchange and it is that key exchange method that has been fixed.For the oldstable (wheezy) and stable (jessie) distributions, this will be fixed soon.