CVE-2012-6063

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

Double free vulnerability in the sftp_mkdir function in sftp.c in libssh before 0.5.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vector than CVE-2012-4559.

Double free vulnerability in the sftp_mkdir function in sftp.c in libssh before 0.5.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vector than CVE-2012-4559.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

Libssh

First reported 12 years ago

2012-11-30 22:55:00

Last updated 12 years ago

2012-12-19 05:00:00

Affected Software

Libssh 0.4.7

0.4.7

Libssh 0.4.8

0.4.8

Libssh 0.5.0

0.5.0

Libssh 0.5.0rc1

0.5.0

Libssh 0.5.1

0.5.1

References

http://git.libssh.org/projects/libssh.git/commit/?h=v0-5&id=4d8420f3282ed07fc99fc5e930c17df27ef1e9b2

DSA-2577

http://www.libssh.org/2012/11/20/libssh-0-5-3-security-release/

Vendor Advisory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=871612

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