1.9 Low
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
It was discovered that libssh, a tiny C SSH library, did not reset the
state of the PRNG after accepting a connection. A server mode
application that forks itself to handle incoming connections could see
its children sharing the same PRNG state, resulting in a cryptographic
weakness and possibly the recovery of the private key.
For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.4.5-3+squeeze2.
For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.5.4-1+deb7u1.
For the testing distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.5.4-3.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.5.4-3.
We recommend that you upgrade your libssh packages.