CVE-2016-0787: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

April 13, 2016 (updated October 30, 2018)

The diffie_hellman_sha256 function in kex.c in libssh2 improperly truncates secrets to 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.”

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-0787

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