CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-4559

6.8 MEDIUM Published 2012-11-30 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2012-11-30
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-399

Description

Multiple double free vulnerabilities in the (1) agent_sign_data function in agent.c, (2) channel_request function in channels.c, (3) ssh_userauth_pubkey function in auth.c, (4) sftp_parse_attr_3 function in sftp.c, and (5) try_publickey_from_file function in keyfiles.c in libssh before 0.5.3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

Affected configurations

• libssh libssh (<= 0.5.2) • libssh libssh 0.4.7 • libssh libssh 0.4.8 • libssh libssh 0.5.0 • libssh libssh 0.5.1

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References