gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201408-03.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201408-03">
  <title>LibSSH: Information disclosure</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability in LibSSH can result in leakage of private key
    information. 
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">libssh</product>
  <announced>2014-08-10</announced>
  <revised count="1">2014-08-10</revised>
  <bug>503504</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-libs/libssh" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.6.3</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.6.3</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>LibSSH is a C library providing SSHv2 and SSHv1.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>A new connection inherits the state of the PRNG without re-seeding with
      random data.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="low">
    <p>Servers using ECC (ECDSA) or DSA certificates in non-deterministic mode
      may under certain conditions leak their private key.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All LibSSH users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-libs/libssh-0.6.3"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-0017">CVE-2014-0017</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2014-08-04T19:25:42Z">
    keytoaster
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2014-08-10T16:35:47Z">K_F</metadata>
</glsa>