CVE-2019-3858

critical
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v4 NEW
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.5

Description

An out of bounds read flaw was discovered in libssh2 before 1.8.1 when a specially crafted SFTP packet is received from the server. A remote attacker who compromises a SSH server may be able to cause a Denial of Service or read data in the client memory.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
Affected
arch Arch Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
Fixed 1.8.1-1
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1.8.0-2.1
sid Fixed 1.8.0-2.1
forky Fixed 1.8.0-2.1
bullseye Fixed 1.8.0-2.1
bookworm Fixed 1.8.0-2.1

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.