Bug 476622 – <net-libs/libssh-0.5.5 - possible double free corruption

• Product: Gentoo Security
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Alexander Vershilov (RETIRED) 2013-07-12 09:38:35 UTC]

Null pointer doesn't checked in channel.c this may prevent to a null reference deallocation:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=982685#c0


Fixed in:

http://git.libssh.org/projects/libssh.git/commit/?id=11e54e82216e1a07d90f7e4db9572ea96d036350

[Comment 1 Sergey Popov (RETIRED) 2013-07-12 10:39:03 UTC]

Created attachment 353144 [details, diff]
Check-for-NULL-pointers-in-channel.c.patch

Patch from upstream git

[Comment 2 Michael Palimaka (kensington) 2013-09-12 09:04:26 UTC]

Please CC all package maintainers. I will action this shortly.

[Comment 3 Michael Palimaka (kensington) 2013-09-12 09:30:44 UTC]

Added 0.5.5 in CVS which contains the fix.

[Comment 4 Sergey Popov (RETIRED) 2013-09-12 10:16:48 UTC]

(In reply to Michael Palimaka (kensington) from comment #3)
> Added 0.5.5 in CVS which contains the fix.

Good. Is it ready for stabilization? If yes, please CC arches and begin to stabilize it.

[Comment 5 Michael Palimaka (kensington) 2013-09-12 10:52:20 UTC]

Arch teams, please test and stabilise net-libs/libssh-0.5.5.

Target KEYWORDS="amd64 ppc ppc64 x86".

[Comment 6 Agostino Sarubbo 2013-09-12 17:38:58 UTC]

ppc stable

[Comment 7 Agostino Sarubbo 2013-09-14 08:14:03 UTC]

amd64 stable

[Comment 8 Agostino Sarubbo 2013-09-14 10:14:01 UTC]

x86 stable

[Comment 9 Agostino Sarubbo 2013-09-14 10:37:15 UTC]

ppc64 stable

[Comment 10 Sergey Popov (RETIRED) 2013-09-18 05:02:06 UTC]

Thanks for your work.

GLSA vote: no

[Comment 11 Johannes Huber (RETIRED) 2013-09-18 05:57:07 UTC]

Thanks all. Removing maintainer, nothing to do anymore.

+
+  18 Sep 2013; Johannes Huber <[e-mail]> -libssh-0.5.4.ebuild:
+  Remove vulnerable version wrt bug #476622.
+

[Comment 12 Chris Reffett (RETIRED) 2013-09-18 14:03:05 UTC]

GLSA vote: no. Closing noglsa.