CVE-2015-1782

Summary

CVECVE-2015-1782
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2015-03-13 14:59:00 UTC
Updated2023-02-13 00:46:00 UTC
DescriptionThe kex_agree_methods function in libssh2 before 1.5.0 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (crash) or have other unspecified impact via crafted length values in an SSH_MSG_KEXINIT packet.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 20 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 21 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 22 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 20 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 21 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 22 All All All
Application Libssh2 Libssh2 All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Red Hat Customer Portal MISC access.redhat.com
access.redhat.com | CVE-2015-1782 MISC access.redhat.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: libssh2-1.5.0-1.fc20 FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Third Party Advisory
1199511 – (CVE-2015-1782) CVE-2015-1782 libssh2: Using SSH_MSG_KEXINIT data unbounded MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
libssh2 Security Advisory: Using SSH_MSG_KEXINIT data unbounded CONFIRM www.libssh2.org Vendor Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: libssh2-1.5.0-1.fc22 FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Third Party Advisory
Oracle Linux Bulletin - October 2015 CONFIRM www.oracle.com
libssh2 'kex_agree_methods()' Function Out of Bounds Denial of Service Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: libssh2-1.5.0-1.fc21 FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Third Party Advisory
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2015:148 | Mandriva MANDRIVA www.mandriva.com Broken Link
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3182-1 libssh2 DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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