CVE-2023-25136

Summary

CVECVE-2023-25136
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-02-03 06:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 04:08:00 UTC
DescriptionOpenSSH server (sshd) 9.1 introduced a double-free vulnerability during options.kex_algorithms handling. This is fixed in OpenSSH 9.2. The double free can be leveraged, by an unauthenticated remote attacker in the default configuration, to jump to any location in the sshd address space. One third-party report states "remote code execution is theoretically possible."

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-415

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 37 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 38 All All All
Hardware Netapp 500f - All All All
Operating System Netapp 500f Firmware - All All All
Hardware Netapp A250 - All All All
Operating System Netapp A250 Firmware - All All All
Hardware Netapp C250 - All All All
Operating System Netapp C250 Firmware - All All All
Application Netapp Ontap Select Deploy Administration Utility - All All All
Application Openssh Openssh 9.1 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
3522 – Crash with "free(): double free detected" with old clients MISC bugzilla.mindrot.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: openssh-8.8p1-10.fc37 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
CVE-2023-25136 OpenSSH Vulnerability in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 38 Update: openssh-9.0p1-15.fc38 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
oss-security - Re: Re: double-free vulnerability in OpenSSH server 9.1 (CVE-2023-25136) MLIST www.openwall.com
oss-security - Re: double-free vulnerability in OpenSSH server 9.1 (CVE-2023-25136) MLIST www.openwall.com
CVE-2023-25136 OpenSSH Pre-Auth Double Free Writeup & PoC MISC jfrog.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: openssh-8.8p1-10.fc37 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
OpenSSH Pre-Auth Double Free – CVE-2023-25136 – Writeup and Proof-of-Concept | Hacker News MISC news.ycombinator.com
oss-security - Re: Re: double-free vulnerability in OpenSSH server 9.1 (CVE-2023-25136) MLIST www.openwall.com
oss-security - Re: double-free vulnerability in OpenSSH server 9.1 (CVE-2023-25136) MLIST www.openwall.com
upstream: Always return allocated strings from the kex filtering so · openssh/openssh-portable@486c4dc · GitHub MISC github.com
oss-security - double-free vulnerability in OpenSSH server 9.1 MISC www.openwall.com
oss-security - Re: Re: double-free vulnerability in OpenSSH server 9.1 (CVE-2023-25136) MLIST www.openwall.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 38 Update: openssh-9.0p1-15.fc38 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
oss-security - Re: Re: double-free vulnerability in OpenSSH server 9.1 (CVE-2023-25136) MLIST www.openwall.com
OpenSSH: Remote Code Execution (GLSA 202307-01) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/7.2/common/017_sshd.patch.sig MISC ftp.openbsd.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 160641 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for openssh (ELSA-2023-2645)
  • 184729 Debian Security Update for openssh (CVE-2023-25136)
  • 241463 Red Hat Update for openssh (RHSA-2023:2645)
  • 283896 Fedora Security Update for openssh (FEDORA-2023-1176c8b10c)
  • 284173 Fedora Security Update for openssh (FEDORA-2023-123647648e)
  • 38888 OpenSSH server 9.1 'sshd(8)' Double-Free Vulnerability
  • 673019 EulerOS Security Update for openssh (EulerOS-SA-2023-1981)
  • 673022 EulerOS Security Update for openssh (EulerOS-SA-2023-1959)
  • 710742 Gentoo Linux OpenSSH Remote Code Execution (RCE) Vulnerability (GLSA 202307-01)
  • 905383 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for openssh (13208)
  • 905384 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for openssh (13213)
  • 941047 AlmaLinux Security Update for openssh (ALSA-2023:2645)
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