CVE-2016-0787
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2016-02-23 | |
| Impact: | Moderate | What is this? |
Description
The diffie_hellman_sha256 function in kex.c in libssh2 before 1.7.0improperly truncates secrets to 128 or 256 bits, which makes it easier for man-in-the-middle attackers to decrypt or intercept SSH sessions via unspecified vectors, aka a bits/bytes
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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v2 metrics
| Base Score: | 5.8 |
| Vector String: | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N |
| Version: | 2.0 |
| Attack Vector: | Network |
| Attack Complexity: | Medium |
| Authentication: | None |
| Confidentiality Impact: | Partial |
| Integrity Impact: | Partial |
| Availability Impact: | None |
Errata information
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
| Oracle Linux version 6 (libssh2) | ELSA-2016-0428 | 2016-03-10 |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (libssh2) | ELSA-2016-0428 | 2016-03-10 |
| Oracle VM version 3.3 (libssh2) | OVMSA-2016-0035 | 2016-03-10 |
| Oracle VM version 3.4 (libssh2) | OVMSA-2016-0035 | 2016-03-10 |
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