-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora EPEL Update Notification FEDORA-EPEL-2014-4800 2014-12-19 23:01:32 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : libssh Product : Fedora EPEL 7 Version : 0.6.4 Release : 1.el7 URL : http://www.libssh.org Summary : A library implementing the SSH protocol Description : The ssh library was designed to be used by programmers needing a working SSH implementation by the mean of a library. The complete control of the client is made by the programmer. With libssh, you can remotely execute programs, transfer files, use a secure and transparent tunnel for your remote programs. With its Secure FTP implementation, you can play with remote files easily, without third-party programs others than libcrypto (from openssl).
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:
Security fix for CVE-2014-8132. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1158089 - CVE-2014-8132 libssh: Possible double free on a dangling pointer with crafted kexinit packet https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1158089 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use su -c 'yum update libssh' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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