ubuntu · CVE-2016-0739

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Priority: medium Published: 2016-02-23 15:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 21:50:49 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-0739 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (libssh), 6 status rows across 6 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, wily, xenial, yakkety): released 6.

Description:

libssh before 0.7.3 improperly truncates ephemeral secrets generated for the (1) diffie-hellman-group1 and (2) diffie-hellman-group14 key exchange methods to 128 bits, which makes it easier for man-in-the-middle attackers to decrypt or intercept SSH sessions via unspecified vectors, aka a "bits/bytes confusion bug."

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