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A libssh security update has been released for Fedora 30



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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2019-46b6bd2459
2020-01-03 20:35:14.416828
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Name : libssh
Product : Fedora 30
Version : 0.9.3
Release : 1.fc30
URL :   http://www.libssh.org
Summary : A library implementing the SSH protocol
Description :
The ssh library was designed to be used by programmers needing a working SSH
implementation by the mean of a library. The complete control of the client is
made by the programmer. With libssh, you can remotely execute programs, transfer
files, use a secure and transparent tunnel for your remote programs. With its
Secure FTP implementation, you can play with remote files easily, without
third-party programs others than libcrypto (from openssl).

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Update Information:

Update to version 0.9.3 to address CVE-2019-14889
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Dec 10 2019 Andreas Schneider - 0.9.3-1
- Update to version 0.9.3
- resolves: #1781780 - Fixes CVE-2019-14889
* Thu Nov 7 2019 Andreas Schneider - 0.9.2-1
- Upate to version 0.9.2
- resolves #1769370 - Remove the docs, they can be found on   https://api.libssh.org/
* Thu Jul 11 2019 Anderson Sasaki - 0.9.0-5
- Add Obsoletes in libssh-config to avoid conflict with old libssh which
installed the configuration files.
* Wed Jul 10 2019 Anderson Sasaki - 0.9.0-4
- Eliminate circular dependency with libssh-config subpackage
* Wed Jul 10 2019 Anderson Sasaki - 0.9.0-3
- Provide the configuration files in a separate libssh-config subpackage
* Thu Jul 4 2019 Anderson Sasaki - 0.9.0-2
- Do not ignore keys from known_hosts when SSH_OPTIONS_HOSTKEYS is set
* Fri Jun 28 2019 Anderson Sasaki - 0.9.0-1
- Fixed Release number to released format
* Fri Jun 28 2019 Anderson Sasaki - 0.9.0-0.1
- Update to version 0.9.0
  https://www.libssh.org/2019/06/28/libssh-0-9-0/
* Wed Jun 19 2019 Anderson Sasaki - 0.8.91-0.1
- Update to 0.9.0 pre release version (0.8.91)
- Added default configuration files for client and server
- Follow system-wide crypto configuration (crypto-policies)
- Added Recommends for crypto-policies
- Use OpenSSL implementation for KDF, DH, and signatures.
- Detect FIPS mode and use only allowed algorithms
- Run client and server tests during build
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1781780 - CVE-2019-14889 libssh: unsanitized location in scp could lead to unwanted command execution [fedora-all]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1781780
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-46b6bd2459' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
  http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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