ELA-99-3 libssh2 security update

More boundary checks

2019-07-30
Packagelibssh2
Version1.4.2-1.1+deb7u7
Related CVEs CVE-2019-3859 CVE-2019-3860 CVE-2019-13115


CVE-2019-3859: While investigating the impact of CVE-2019-13115 in Debian jessie’s version of libssh2, it was discovered that issues around CVE-2019-3859 had not been fully resolved in Debian jessie’s version of libssh2. A thorough manual (read, analyze, and copy code changes if needed) comparison of upstream code and code in Debian jessie’s version of libssh2 was done and various more boundary checks and integer overflow protections got added to the package.

CVE-2019-13115: Kevin Backhouse from semmle.com discovered that initial fixes for the CVE series CVE-2019-3855 - 2019-3863 introduced several regressions about signedness of length return values into the upstream code. While working on the CVE-2019-3859 update mentioned above, it was paid attention to not introduce these upstream regression registered as CVE-2019-13115.

CVE-2019-3860: Several more boundary checks have been backported to src/sftp.c. Furthermore, all boundary checks in src/sftp.c now result in an LIBSSH2_ERROR_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL error code, rather than a LIBSSH2_ERROR_ OUT_OF_BOUNDARY error code. This e.g. avoids a segfault in kftpgrabber’s SFTP code.

As a side note, it was discovered that libssh2’s SFTP implementation from Debian wheezy only works well against openssh SFTP servers from Debian wheezy, tests against newer openssh versions (such as available in Debian jessie and beyond) failed with SFTP protocol error “Error opening remote file”.



For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 1.4.2-1.1+deb7u7.

We recommend that you upgrade your libssh2 packages.

Further information about Extended LTS security advisories can be found in the dedicated section of our website.