First published: Fri Sep 29 2006(Updated: )
packet.c in ssh in OpenSSH allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by sending an invalid protocol sequence with USERAUTH_SUCCESS before NEWKEYS, which causes newkeys[mode] to be NULL.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
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OpenSSH | =4.5 |
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CVE-2006-4925 is classified as a denial of service vulnerability.
To fix CVE-2006-4925, upgrade to a version of OpenSSH that is not affected by this vulnerability.
OpenSSH version 4.5 is specifically affected by CVE-2006-4925.
CVE-2006-4925 allows remote attackers to crash the SSH service by sending an invalid protocol sequence.
Yes, CVE-2006-4925 can be exploited remotely by sending malformed packets to the SSH server.