Description

A vulnerability was found in libssh, where an uninitialized variable exists under certain conditions in the privatekey_from_file() function. This flaw can be triggered if the file specified by the filename doesn't exist and may lead to possible signing failures or heap corruption.

INFO

Published Date :

2025-07-22T14:17:03.122Z

Last Modified :

2025-11-21T07:34:36.235Z

Source :

redhat
AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2025-4878 vulnerability.

Vendors Products
Redhat
  • Enterprise Linux
  • Openshift
REFERENCES

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2025-4878.

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https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-4878 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2376184 cve-icon cve-icon
https://git.libssh.org/projects/libssh.git/commit/?id=697650caa97eaf7623924c75f9fcfec6dd423cd1 cve-icon cve-icon
https://git.libssh.org/projects/libssh.git/commit/?id=b35ee876adc92a208d47194772e99f9c71e0bedb cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-4878 cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-4878 cve-icon
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