RHSA-2023:5615 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: libssh2 security update

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 7

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · October 11, 2023

Updated · October 14, 2026

Topic

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.

Description

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

Security Fix(es):

  • libssh2: use-of-uninitialized-value in _libssh2_transport_read (CVE-2020-22218)

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.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2023:5615 — Red Hat Security Advisory: libssh2 security update | PulseLinux