Category Archives: Debian

Debian Security Advisories

DSA-3182 libssh2 – security update

Mariusz Ziulek reported that libssh2, a SSH2 client-side library, was
reading and using the SSH_MSG_KEXINIT packet without doing sufficient
range checks when negotiating a new SSH session with a remote server. A
malicious attacker could man in the middle a real server and cause a
client using the libssh2 library to crash (denial of service) or
otherwise read and use unintended memory areas in this process.

DSA-3177 mod-gnutls – security update

Thomas Klute discovered that in mod-gnutls, an Apache module providing
SSL and TLS encryption with GnuTLS, a bug caused the server’s client
verify mode not to be considered at all, in case the directory’s
configuration was unset. Clients with invalid certificates were then
able to leverage this flaw in order to get access to that directory.