CVE-2012-4560: Buffer Overflow
First published: Tue Oct 30 2012(Updated: )
Florian Weimer of the Red Hat Product Security Team reported two cases where a function in libssh would write one past the end of the buffer (the u buffer in misc.c:ssh_path_expand_tilde() and the buf buffer in misc.c:ssh_path_expand_escape()).
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Libssh Libssh | <=0.5.2 | |
| Libssh Libssh | =0.4.7 | |
| Libssh Libssh | =0.4.8 | |
| Libssh Libssh | =0.5.0 | |
| Libssh Libssh | =0.5.0-rc1 | |
| Libssh Libssh | =0.5.1 |
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Reference Links
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-November/093313.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-November/093474.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-12/msg00002.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-12/msg00016.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00021.html
- http://www.libssh.org/2012/11/20/libssh-0-5-3-security-release/
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:175
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/20/3
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56604
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1640-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=871614
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80219
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/attachment.cgi?id=644664&action=diff
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/attachment.cgi?id=644664&action=edit
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/attachment.cgi?id=644665&action=diff
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/attachment.cgi?id=644665&action=edit
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/attachment.cgi?id=644666&action=diff
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/attachment.cgi?id=644666&action=edit
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/attachment.cgi?id=644667&action=diff
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/attachment.cgi?id=644667&action=edit
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/attachment.cgi?id=644668&action=diff
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/attachment.cgi?id=644668&action=edit
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/attachment.cgi?id=644669&action=diff
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/attachment.cgi?id=644669&action=edit
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/attachment.cgi?id=644988&action=diff
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/attachment.cgi?id=644988&action=edit
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/attachment.cgi?id=644990&action=diff
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/attachment.cgi?id=644990&action=edit
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=878521
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