CVE-2015-1782

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-03-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The kex_agree_methods function in libssh2 before 1.5.0 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (crash) or have other unspecified impact via crafted length values in an SSH_MSG_KEXINIT packet.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 7.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 20, 21, 22
libssh2: through 1.4.3

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151943.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152362.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/153933.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3182
http://www.libssh2.org/adv_20150311.html
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:148
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73061
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151943.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152362.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/153933.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3182

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