CVE-2006-4925

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Summary

CVECVE-2006-4925
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-09-29 00:07:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
Descriptionpacket.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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Openbsd Openssh 4.5 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
src/usr.bin/ssh/packet.c - diff - 1.145 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openbsd.org
OpenPKG Corporation: Security: Security Advisories af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openpkg.org
IBM HMC OpenSSH / OpenSSL Vulnerabilities - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
[#RPL-681] multiple vulnerabilities in openssh CVE-2006-4925 CVE-2006-5052 - rPath JIRA af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 issues.rpath.com
Advisories - Mandriva Linux af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
Security Announcement af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.novell.com
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Gentoo Bug 148228 - net-misc/openssh Multiple minor issues CVE-2006-4924 CVE-2006-4925 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.gentoo.org Exploit, Patch
Mandriva update for openssh - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
SUSE update for openssh - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
SUSE updates for openssh, openssl, and bind9 - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Security Announcement af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.novell.com
[#RPL-661] openssh denial of service CVE-2006-4924 and client unclean exit CVE-2006-4925 - rPath JIRA af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 issues.rpath.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2006-10-31Joshua BressersRed Hat does not consider this flaw a security issue. This flaw can cause an OpenSSH client to crash when connecting to a malicious server, which does not result in a denial of service condition.

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