CVE-2023-6918

CVSS 3.1 Score 5.3 of 10 (medium)

Details

Published Dec 19, 2023
Updated: May 22, 2024
CWE ID 252

Summary

CVE-2023-6918 is a vulnerability affecting the libssh library's message digest (MD) operations in various crypto backends. The abstract layer for these operations does not adequately check return values, leading to potential low-memory situations, crashes, NULL dereferences, or usage of uninitialized memory as input for the Key Derivation Function (KDF). Consequently, non-matching keys may result in decryption or integrity failures, ultimately terminating the connection.

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Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Fedora Operating System

Affected Vendors

  • Red Hat
  • Fedora Project

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