Bug 894407 (CVE-2013-0176)

Summary: CVE-2013-0176 libssh: NULL dereference leads to denial of service
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Vincent Danen <vdanen>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Patch for CVE-2013-0176 none

Description Vincent Danen 2013-01-11 16:44:18 UTC 
A NULL dereference was found in libssh 0.5.3's publickey_from_privatekey() function.  When a server using libssh receives a "Client: Key Exchange Init", the server sets up the session and tries to set the algorithms by matching what the user specified vs what is supported in crypt_set_algorithms_server().  If there is no match, it will lead to a NULL dereference when receiving the "Client: Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange Init" packet, which will cause the program using libssh to crash.
Comment 2 Andreas Schneider 2013-01-14 13:40:17 UTC 
Created attachment 678235 [details]
Patch for CVE-2013-0176
Comment 4 Andreas Schneider 2013-01-22 15:22:43 UTC 
http://www.libssh.org/2013/01/22/libssh-0-5-4-security-release/
Comment 5 Andreas Schneider 2013-01-22 15:24:57 UTC 
Fedora bugs are created automatically?
Comment 6 Vincent Danen 2013-01-22 21:40:33 UTC 
Created libssh tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 902992]
Comment 7 Vincent Danen 2013-01-22 21:40:59 UTC 
Sorry, no, I forgot about the time.  =(
Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2013-02-02 04:19:45 UTC 
libssh-0.5.4-1.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2013-02-02 04:28:16 UTC 
libssh-0.5.4-1.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.