Security Advisory

CVE-2012-4561

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2012-11-30 22:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 20:42:53
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

The (1) publickey_make_dss, (2) publickey_make_rsa, (3) signature_from_string, (4) ssh_do_sign, and (5) ssh_sign_session_id functions in keys.c in libssh before 0.5.3 free "an invalid pointer on an error path," which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unspecified vectors.