RHSA-2019:2136 — Security Advisory

An update for libssh2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The libssh2 packages provide a library that implements the SSH2 protocol.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: libssh2 (1.8.0). (BZ#1592784)

Security Fix(es):

• libssh2: Zero-byte allocation with a specially crafted SFTP packed leading to an out-of-bounds read (CVE-2019-3858)

• libssh2: Out-of-bounds reads with specially crafted SSH packets (CVE-2019-3861)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.