CVE-2012-6063

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Summary

CVECVE-2012-6063
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-11-30 22:55:00 UTC
Updated2012-12-19 05:00:00 UTC
DescriptionDouble free vulnerability in the sftp_mkdir function in sftp.c in libssh before 0.5.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vector than CVE-2012-4559.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-399

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Libssh Libssh 0.4.7 All All All
Application Libssh Libssh 0.4.8 All All All
Application Libssh Libssh 0.5.0 All All All
Application Libssh Libssh 0.5.0 rc1 All All
Application Libssh Libssh 0.5.1 All All All
Application Libssh Libssh All All All All
Application Libssh Libssh 0.4.7 All All All
Application Libssh Libssh 0.4.8 All All All
Application Libssh Libssh 0.5.0 All All All
Application Libssh Libssh 0.5.0 rc1 All All
Application Libssh Libssh 0.5.1 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-2577-1 libssh DEBIAN www.debian.org
871612 – (CVE-2012-4559, CVE-2012-6063) CVE-2012-4559 CVE-2012-6063 libssh: multiple double free() flaws MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
libssh 0.5.3 (SECURITY RELEASE) at libssh - The SSH Library! CONFIRM www.libssh.org Vendor Advisory
projects/libssh.git - libssh shared repository CONFIRM git.libssh.org
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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