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libssh/libssh2 bits and bytes confusion

From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 11:11:36 -0700

CVE-2016-0739 libssh: Diffie-Hellman bits/bytes confusion bug
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-0739

CVE-2016-0787 libssh2: Diffie-Hellman bits/bytes confusion bug
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-0787

TL;DR: bits/bytes confusion resulted in truncated Diffie-Hellman secret
length in certain configs.

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