RHSA-2025:19400 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for libssh is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

libssh is a library which implements the SSH protocol. It can be used to implement client and server applications.

Security Fix(es):

• libssh: out-of-bounds read in sftp_handle() (CVE-2025-5318)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.2 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2369131 - CVE-2025-5318 libssh: out-of-bounds read in sftp_handle()

CVEs

• CVE-2025-5318

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate