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CVE-2006-4925

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Description

packet.c in ssh in OpenSSH allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by sending an invalid protocol sequence with USERAUTH_SUCCESS before NEWKEYS, which causes newkeys[mode] to be NULL.

References

https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-681

https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-661

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447861/100/200/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447153/100/0/threaded

http://www.openpkg.org/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.022-openssh.html

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/ssh/packet.c.diff?r1=1.144&r2=1.145&f=h

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_62_openssh.html

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_24_sr.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:179

http://secunia.com/advisories/23038

http://secunia.com/advisories/22495

http://secunia.com/advisories/22298

http://secunia.com/advisories/22245

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2006-09-29

Updated: 2025-04-09

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.02683

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