Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting libssh package, versions [,0.6.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment by Snyk's Security Team. Learn more

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.78% (86th percentile)

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications

Snyk Learn

Learn about Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerabilities in an interactive lesson.

Start learning
  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBSSH-2379517
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed29 Dec 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Dec 2014

CVE-2014-8132  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libssh to version 0.6.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). Double free vulnerability in the ssh_packet_kexinit function in kex.c in libssh 0.5.x and 0.6.x before 0.6.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted kexinit packet.

References

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1