CVE-2008-0852 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.05379.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Freesshd	Freesshd

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:freesshd:freesshd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2008-0859	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.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/freesshdnull-adv.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/29002
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488363/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27845
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0591

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2008-02-21T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T08:01:40.099Z

Reserved: 2008-02-20T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2008-0852

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2008-02-21T00:44:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2008-0852

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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