RHSA-2023:6643 — Security Advisory

An update for libssh is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

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.

libssh is a library which implements the SSH protocol. It can be used to implement client and server applications.

Security Fix(es):

• libssh: NULL pointer dereference during rekeying with algorithm guessing (CVE-2023-1667)

• libssh: authorization bypass in pki_verify_data_signature (CVE-2023-2283)

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 9.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.