A flaw was found in libssh versions before 0.8.9 and before 0.9.4 in the way it handled AES-CTR (or DES ciphers if enabled) ciphers. The server or client could crash when the connection hasn't been fully initialized and the system tries to cleanup the ciphers when closing the connection. The biggest threat from this vulnerability is system availability.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2020-04-13T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-04T06:46:30.844Z

Reserved: 2019-11-27T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2020-1730

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-04-13T19:15:11.173

Modified: 2023-11-07T03:19:30.097

Link: CVE-2020-1730

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2020-04-09T09:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2020-1730 - Bugzilla