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CVE-2012-4559

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
Publication date:
30/11/2012
Last modified:
11/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.80 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
6.80
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:libssh:libssh:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 0.5.2 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:libssh:libssh:0.4.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libssh:libssh:0.4.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libssh:libssh:0.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libssh:libssh:0.5.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libssh:libssh:0.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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