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 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory                         MDVSA-2012:175
 http://www.mandriva.com/security/
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 Package : libssh
 Date    : November 29, 2012
 Affected: 2011.
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 Problem Description:

 Multiple double free(), buffer overflow, invalid free() and improper
 overflow checks vulnerabilities was found and corrected in libssh
 (CVE-2012-4559, CVE-2012-4560, CVE-2012-4561, CVE-2012-4562).

 The updated packages have been upgraded to the 0.5.3 version which
 is not affected by these issues.
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 References:

 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-4559
 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-4560
 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-4561
 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-4562
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 Updated Packages:

 Mandriva Linux 2011:
 6caa9057d2acb9c4f72e62f9963ee616  2011/i586/libssh4-0.5.3-0.1-mdv2011.0.i586.rpm
 b8f7788c70db71ef6407a35b132b859d 
2011/i586/libssh-devel-0.5.3-0.1-mdv2011.0.i586.rpm
 9e49cafcb16a359fbdeb784ddfd95709  2011/SRPMS/libssh-0.5.3-0.1.src.rpm

 Mandriva Linux 2011/X86_64:
 5ee32a4b70dc10b76862c0e5d4d4e09f 
2011/x86_64/lib64ssh4-0.5.3-0.1-mdv2011.0.x86_64.rpm
 d34b185770ea7f0fe4f79bbefd29a08d 
2011/x86_64/lib64ssh-devel-0.5.3-0.1-mdv2011.0.x86_64.rpm
 9e49cafcb16a359fbdeb784ddfd95709  2011/SRPMS/libssh-0.5.3-0.1.src.rpm
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 You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at:

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 Type Bits/KeyID     Date       User ID
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