Updated libssh2 packages has been released for both Debian GNU/Linux 7 Extended LTS and Debian GNU/Linux 8 LTS:

ELA-99-3 libssh2 security update
DLA 1730-4: libssh2 regression update

ELA-99-3 libssh2 security update

Package: libssh2
Version: 1.4.2-1.1+deb7u7
Related CVE: CVE-2019-3859 CVE-2019-3860 CVE-2019-13115

CVE-2019-3859: While investigating the impact of CVE-2019-13115 in Debian jessie’s version of libssh2, it was discovered that issues around CVE-2019-3859 had not been fully resolved in Debian jessie’s version of libssh2. A thorough manual (read, analyze, and copy code changes if needed) comparison of upstream code and code in Debian jessie’s version of libssh2 was done and various more boundary checks and integer overflow protections got added to the package.

CVE-2019-13115: Kevin Backhouse from semmle.com discovered that initial fixes for the CVE series CVE-2019-3855 - 2019-3863 introduced several regressions about signedness of length return values into the upstream code. While working on the CVE-2019-3859 update mentioned above, it was paid attention to not introduce these upstream regression registered as CVE-2019-13115.

CVE-2019-3860: Several more boundary checks have been backported to src/sftp.c. Furthermore, all boundary checks in src/sftp.c now result in an LIBSSH2_ERROR_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL error code, rather than a LIBSSH2ERROR OUT_OF_BOUNDARY error code. This e.g. avoids a segfault in kftpgrabber’s SFTP code.

As a side note, it was discovered that libssh2’s SFTP implementation from Debian wheezy only works well against openssh SFTP servers from Debian wheezy, tests against newer openssh versions (such as available in Debian jessie and beyond) failed with SFTP protocol error “Error opening remote file”.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 1.4.2-1.1+deb7u7.

We recommend that you upgrade your libssh2 packages.

Further information about Extended LTS security advisories can be found at: https://deb.freexian.com/extended-lts/

DLA 1730-4: libssh2 regression update

Package : libssh2
Version : 1.4.3-4.1+deb8u5
CVE ID : CVE-2019-3860

Several more boundary checks have been backported to libssh2's
src/sftp.c. Furthermore, all boundary checks in src/sftp.c now result in
an LIBSSH2_ERROR_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL error code, rather than a
LIBSSH2_ERROR_ OUT_OF_BOUNDARY error code.

As a side note, it was discovered that libssh2's SFTP implementation from
Debian jessie only works well against OpenSSH SFTP servers from Debian
wheezy, tests against newer OpenSSH versions (such as available in Debian
jessie and beyond) interim-fail with SFTP protocol error "Error opening
remote file". Operation might continue after this error, this depends on
application implementations.


For Debian 8 "Jessie", this problem has been fixed in version
1.4.3-4.1+deb8u5.

We recommend that you upgrade your libssh2 packages.

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS