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CVE-2008-0852 (GCVE-0-2008-0852)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-02-21 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 08:01
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0591 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488363/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/freesshdnull-adv.txt x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27845 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
Date Public
2008-02-17 00:00
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