CVE-2006-4925

Public Exploit

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.

5.0

CVSS

Severity: Medium

CVSS 2.0 •

EPSS 2.89% Top 15%

Vendor Advisory novell.com Vendor Advisory novell.com Vendor Advisory openpkg.org Vendor Advisory mandriva.com

Affected: n/a n/a

References

Link	Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/23038	third party advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447861/100/200/threaded	mailing list
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_24_sr.html	vendor advisory
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_62_openssh.html	vendor advisory
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-681
http://secunia.com/advisories/22298	third party advisory
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/ssh/packet.c.diff?r1=1.144&r2=1.145&f=h
http://secunia.com/advisories/22495	third party advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447153/100/0/threaded	mailing list
http://www.openpkg.org/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.022-openssh.html	vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/22245	third party advisory
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-661
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148228	patch exploit
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:179	vendor advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2006-4925?: CVE-2006-4925 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2006-4925?: To fix CVE-2006-4925, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2006-4925 being actively exploited in the wild?: It is possible that CVE-2006-4925 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~3% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.

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