CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-0852
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-02-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Description
freeSSHd 1.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS packet to TCP port 22, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.
Affected configurations
• freesshd freesshd (<= 1.2)
References
- http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/freesshdnull-adv.txt aluigi.altervista.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29002 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488363/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27845 Exploit
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0591 www.vupen.com
- http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/freesshdnull-adv.txt aluigi.altervista.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29002 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488363/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27845 Exploit
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0591 www.vupen.com