Security Advisory

CVE-2015-6564

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2015-08-24 00:00:00
Last updated 2026-05-27 16:18:06
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the mm_answer_pam_free_ctx function in monitor.c in sshd in OpenSSH before 7.0 on non-OpenBSD platforms might allow local users to gain privileges by leveraging control of the sshd uid to send an unexpectedly early MONITOR_REQ_PAM_FREE_CTX request.