CVE-2012-4561
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Nov 30, 2012
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Aug 21, 2012
Description
The (1) publickey_make_dss, (2) publickey_make_rsa, (3) signature_from_string, (4) ssh_do_sign, and (5) ssh_sign_session_id functions in keys.c in libssh before 0.5.3 free "an invalid pointer on an error path," which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unspecified vectors.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- DSA-2577vendor-advisory
- MDVSA-2012:175vendor-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=871617
- USN-1640-1vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2013:0130vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2012:1622vendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2012-18610vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2012:1620vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20121120 libssh 0.5.3 release fixes multiple security issuesmailing-list
- libssh-multiple-dos(80220)vdb-entry
- FEDORA-2012-18677vendor-advisory
- 56604vdb-entry
- http://www.libssh.org/2012/11/20/libssh-0-5-3-security-release/
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