CVE-2013-0176

high

Description

The publickey_from_privatekey function in libssh before 0.5.4, when no algorithm is matched during negotiations, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via a "Client: Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange Init" packet.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/81595

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1707-1

http://www.libssh.org/2013/01/22/libssh-0-5-4-security-release/

http://secunia.com/advisories/51982

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-February/098094.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-February/098065.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2013-02-05

Updated: 2017-08-29

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High