CVE & CISA-KEV CatalogNVD
CVE-2006-4925
MEDIUMEPSS 96th pctl5.0
CVSS v2
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.
CVSS v2 Vector
No CVSS vector data available.
Exploit Intelligence
14.64%probability of exploitation in 30 days
96thpercentile
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 96% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148228
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22245
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22298
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22495
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23038
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:179
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_24_sr.html
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_62_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.openpkg.org/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.022-openssh.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447153/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447861/100/200/threaded
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-661
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-681
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