Re: Segfault on invalid SSH keys.

[Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

 



On Thu, 15 Oct 2015, Steve Kemp wrote:

> > ok, I can reproduce it in 6.6, but it's fixed in 6.8.
>
>   Thanks for checking. I guess a CVE would make tracking useful for
>  the future, but it is low risk DoS for most people, so I'll not push
>  it :)

There's no vulnerability here - it's an unexploitable NULL dereference.

I can't see how it would be a denial of service either, because
attempting to parse they key was always going to yield a fatal() exit
anyway.

-d
_______________________________________________
openssh-unix-dev mailing list
openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev



[Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

[Index of Archives]     [Linux ARM Kernel]     [Linux ARM]     [Linux Omap]     [Fedora ARM]     [IETF Annouce]     [Security]     [Bugtraq]     [Linux]     [Linux OMAP]     [Linux MIPS]     [ECOS]     [Asterisk Internet PBX]     [Linux API]

  Powered by Linux