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CVE-2014-8132: Double Free

First published: Tue Oct 28 2014(Updated: )

Description of problem: Maybe it is possible to send a malicious kexinit package to eventually cause a server to a double-free. I guess this is only a DoS. Source code: <a href="http://git.libssh.org/projects/libssh.git/">http://git.libssh.org/projects/libssh.git/</a> Patch: From f6b9f851b962e3a587f3f99b7cb97d130f0c77b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jon Simons &lt;jon&gt; Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 23:23:26 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] kex: fixup error path in ssh_packet_kexinit Before this change, dangling pointers can be unintentionally left in the respective next_crypto kex methods slots. Ensure to set all slots to NULL in the error-out path. Signed-off-by: Jon Simons &lt;jon&gt; --- src/kex.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/kex.c b/src/kex.c index f1a1b56..ee00ec3 100644 --- a/src/kex.c +++ b/src/kex.c @@ -443,6 +443,11 @@ SSH_PACKET_CALLBACK(ssh_packet_kexinit){ error: ssh_string_free(str); for (i = 0; i &lt; SSH_KEX_METHODS; i++) { + if (server_kex) { + session-&gt;next_crypto-&gt;client_kex.methods[i] = NULL; + } else { /* client */ + session-&gt;next_crypto-&gt;server_kex.methods[i] = NULL; + } SAFE_FREE(strings[i]); } -- 1.9.1

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Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Libssh Libssh=0.5.0
Libssh Libssh=0.5.2
Libssh Libssh=0.5.3
Libssh Libssh=0.5.4
Libssh Libssh=0.5.5
Libssh Libssh=0.6.0
Libssh Libssh=0.6.1
Libssh Libssh=0.6.2
Libssh Libssh=0.6.3
Debian Debian Linux=7.0
Debian Debian Linux=8.0
openSUSE openSUSE=12.3
openSUSE openSUSE=13.1
openSUSE openSUSE=13.2
Fedoraproject Fedora=19
Fedoraproject Fedora=20
Fedoraproject Fedora=21
Canonical Ubuntu Linux=12.04
Canonical Ubuntu Linux=14.04
Canonical Ubuntu Linux=14.10

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