VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2006-4925

CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability15.03%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2006-09-29
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

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.

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