Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-25136 - Double Free vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
HIGH Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
LOW Availability impact
HIGH Summary
OpenSSH server (sshd) 9.1 introduced a double-free vulnerability during options.kex_algorithms handling. This is fixed in OpenSSH 9.2. The double free can be leveraged, by an unauthenticated remote attacker in the default configuration, to jump to any location in the sshd address space. One third-party report states "remote code execution is theoretically possible."
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 | |
| Application | 1 | |
| OS | 2 | |
| OS | 3 | |
| Hardware | 3 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/02/13/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/02/13/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/02/22/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/02/22/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/02/22/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/02/22/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/02/23/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/02/23/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/03/06/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/03/06/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/03/09/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/03/09/2
- https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3522
- https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3522
- https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/7.2/common/017_sshd.patch.sig
- https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/7.2/common/017_sshd.patch.sig
- https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/commit/486c4dc3b83b4b67d663fb0fa62bc24138ec3946
- https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/commit/486c4dc3b83b4b67d663fb0fa62bc24138ec3946
- https://jfrog.com/blog/openssh-pre-auth-double-free-cve-2023-25136-writeup-and-proof-of-concept/
- https://jfrog.com/blog/openssh-pre-auth-double-free-cve-2023-25136-writeup-and-proof-of-concept/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JGAUIXJ3TEKCRKVWFQ6GDAGQFTIIGQQP/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JGAUIXJ3TEKCRKVWFQ6GDAGQFTIIGQQP/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R7LKQDFZWKYHQ65TBSH2X2HJQ4V2THS3/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R7LKQDFZWKYHQ65TBSH2X2HJQ4V2THS3/
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34711565
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34711565
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202307-01
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202307-01
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230309-0003/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230309-0003/
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/02/02/2
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/02/02/2