content:en_us:announcements_cve_cve-2006-4925

CVE 2006-4925

'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.'

ClearCenter response

Short response

ClearCenter does not consider this a security issue.

Long response

This bug affects the OpenSSH client and not the server. This can cause the client to crash when connecting to a malicious server. This is not a denial of service condition.

Resolution

No action required.

content/en_us/announcements_cve_cve-2006-4925.txt · Last modified: 2014/12/22 17:12 by dloper