Vulnerabilities > CVE-2008-0852 - Remote Denial of Service vulnerability in freeSSHd 'SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS' Packet

047910
CVSS 5.0 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
low complexity
freesshd
exploit available
NVD
Published: 2008-02-21
Updated: 2018-10-15

Summary

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Freesshd
1

Exploit-Db

descriptionfreeSSHd 1.2 'SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS' Packet Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability. CVE-2008-0852. Dos exploit for linux platform
idEDB-ID:31218
last seen2016-02-03
modified2008-02-17
published2008-02-17
reporterLuigi Auriemma
sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/31218/
titlefreeSSHd 1.2 - 'SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS' Packet Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

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