NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libssh  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-LIBSSH-10078691
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed29 Jul 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Jul 2020

CVE-2020-16135  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference libssh 0.9.4 has a NULL pointer dereference in tftpserver.c if ssh_buffer_new returns NULL.