[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: libssh2-1.5.0-1.fc22

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-3757
2015-03-13 12:37:21
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Name        : libssh2
Product     : Fedora 22
Version     : 1.5.0
Release     : 1.fc22
URL         : http://www.libssh2.org/
Summary     : A library implementing the SSH2 protocol
Description :
libssh2 is a library implementing the SSH2 protocol as defined by
Internet Drafts: SECSH-TRANS(22), SECSH-USERAUTH(25),
SECSH-CONNECTION(23), SECSH-ARCH(20), SECSH-FILEXFER(06)*,
SECSH-DHGEX(04), and SECSH-NUMBERS(10).

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Update Information:

This update, to the current upstream release version, contains numerous bug fixes and enhancements as described in the RELEASE-NOTES file.

These include a security fix for CVE-2015-1782:

A malicious attacker could man in the middle a real server and cause libssh2-using clients to crash (denial of service) or otherwise read and use completely unintended memory areas in this process. There are no known exploits of this flaw at this time.

See http://www.libssh2.org/adv_20150311.html for further details.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1199511 - CVE-2015-1782 libssh2: Using SSH_MSG_KEXINIT data unbounded
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1199511
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use
su -c 'yum update libssh2' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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