[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: libssh-0.5.4-1.fc18

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-1407
2013-01-24 21:19:57
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Name        : libssh
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 0.5.4
Release     : 1.fc18
URL         : http://www.libssh.org/
Summary     : A library implementing the SSH2 protocol (0xbadc0de version)
Description :
The ssh library was designed to be used by programmers needing a
working SSH implementation by the mean of a library. The complete
control of the client is made by the programmer. With libssh, you can
remotely execute programs, transfer files, use a secure and transparent
tunnel for your remote programs. With its Secure FTP implementation,
you can play with remote files easily, without third-party programs
others than libcrypto (from openssl).

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Update Information:

Fixed NULL dereference leads to denial of service - CVE-2013-0176, several NULL pointer dereferences in SSHv1, a free crash bug in options parsing.
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Jan 23 2013 Petr Lautrbach <plautrba at redhat.com> 0.5.4-1
- update to security 0.5.4 release
- CVE-2013-0176 (#894407)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #894407 - CVE-2013-0176 libssh: NULL dereference leads to denial of service
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=894407
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update libssh' at the command line.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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