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CVE-2023-2283

Publication date 9 May 2023

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

A vulnerability was found in libssh, where the authentication check of the connecting client can be bypassed in the`pki_verify_data_signature` function in memory allocation problems. This issue may happen if there is insufficient memory or the memory usage is limited. The problem is caused by the return value `rc,` which is initialized to SSH_ERROR and later rewritten to save the return value of the function call `pki_key_check_hash_compatible.` The value of the variable is not changed between this point and the cryptographic verification. Therefore any error between them calls `goto error` returning SSH_OK.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
libssh 23.10 mantic
Fixed 0.10.5-2
23.04 lunar
Fixed 0.10.4-2ubuntu0.1
22.10 kinetic
Fixed 0.9.6-2ubuntu0.22.10.1
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 0.9.6-2ubuntu0.22.04.1
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 0.9.3-2ubuntu2.3
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored

Patch details

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Package Patch details
libssh

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Low
Integrity impact Low
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

References

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