CVE-2012-6063

critical

Description

Double free vulnerability in the sftp_mkdir function in sftp.c in libssh before 0.5.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vector than CVE-2012-4559.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=871612

http://www.libssh.org/2012/11/20/libssh-0-5-3-security-release/

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2577

http://git.libssh.org/projects/libssh.git/commit/?h=v0-5&id=4d8420f3282ed07fc99fc5e930c17df27ef1e9b2

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-11-30

Updated: 2012-12-19

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

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

Severity: Critical