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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.1.1.2.2016.425
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DLA-425-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'libssh' package(s) announced via the DLA-425-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'libssh' package(s) announced via the DLA-425-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Aris Adamantiadis of the libssh team discovered that libssh, an SSH2 protocol implementation used by many applications, did not generate sufficiently long Diffie-Hellman secrets.

This vulnerability could be exploited by an eavesdropper to decrypt and to intercept SSH sessions.

For the oldoldstable distribution (squeeze), this has been fixed in version 0.4.5-3+squeeze3.

For the oldstable (wheezy) and stable (jessie) distributions, this will be fixed soon.

Affected Software/OS:
'libssh' package(s) on Debian 6.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
4.3

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-0739
Debian Security Information: DSA-3488 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3488
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178058.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178822.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-12
RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2016:0566
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0566.html
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2016:0880 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-03/msg00111.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2912-1
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