Denial of Service Vulnerability in libssh 0.6.5 and earlier

Denial of Service Vulnerability in libssh 0.6.5 and earlier

CVE-2015-3146 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The (1) SSH_MSG_NEWKEYS and (2) SSH_MSG_KEXDH_REPLY packet handlers in package_cb.c in libssh before 0.6.5 do not properly validate state, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via a crafted SSH packet.

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