CVE-2015-1782
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.8
Description
The 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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Fedora Affected 3 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 22 | Affected | — |
| 21 | Affected | — |
| 20 | Affected | — |
Debian Mixed 6 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 1.4.3-4.1 |
| sid | Fixed | 1.4.3-4.1 |
| forky | Fixed | 1.4.3-4.1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 1.4.3-4.1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 1.4.3-4.1 |
| 7.0 | Affected | — |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| libssh2 | libssh2 | {"endIncluding":"1.4.3"} | |
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151943.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152362.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/153933.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3182
- http://www.libssh2.org/adv_20150311.html
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:148
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73061
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-1782
CWEs
CWE-20
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.