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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : libssh2_org (SUSE-SU-2024:0558-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 190840

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:0558-1 advisory.

 - Always add the KEX pseudo-methods 'ext-info-c' and '[email protected]' when configuring custom method list. [bsc#1218971, CVE-2023-48795]

 * The strict-kex extension is announced in the list of available KEX methods. However, when the default KEX method list is modified or replaced, the extension is not added back automatically.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected libssh2-1, libssh2-1-32bit and / or libssh2-devel packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1218971

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-48795

http://www.nessus.org/u?b30d87df

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 190840

File Name: suse_SU-2024-0558-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/21/2024

Updated: 6/26/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, tenable_cloud_security, tenable_self_hosted_container_security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-48795

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Threat Score: 5.3

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libssh2-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libssh2-1, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libssh2-1-32bit

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/20/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/18/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-48795

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:0558-1