Bug 2376228

Summary: CVE-2025-5987 libssh2: Invalid return code for chacha20 poly1305 with OpenSSL backend [fedora-42]
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Marco Benatto <mbenatto>
Component: libssh2Assignee: Paul Howarth <paul>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 42CC: kdudka, paul
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Description Marco Benatto 2025-07-03 22:13:38 UTC
More information about this security flaw is available in the following bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2376219

Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

Comment 1 Paul Howarth 2025-07-04 08:38:46 UTC
chacha20_poly1305_set_key() is a function in the libssh code base. libssh2 is an entirely different code base.