CVE-2008-0852 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

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.

Published: 2008-02-21

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: 6.6% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

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

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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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.

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 0.06615.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

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

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Subscriptions

Freesshd Freesshd

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2008-02-21T00:00:00.000Z

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

Reserved: 2008-02-20T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2008-0852

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

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

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2008-0852

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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