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5.9 MEDIUM

CVSS version (CVSS): 3.1
Attack Vector (AV): Network (N)
Attack Complexity (AC): High (H)
Privileges Required (PR): None (N)
User Interaction (UI): None (N)
Scope (S): Unchanged (U)
Confidentiality (C): None (N)
Integrity (I): None (N)
Availability (A): High (H)
Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Network (N)
Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): High (H)
Modified Privileges Required (MPR): None (N)
Modified User Interaction (MUI): None (N)
Modified Confidentiality (MC): None (N)
Modified Scope (MS): Unchanged (U)
Modified Integrity (MI): None (N)
Modified Availability (MA): High (H)

updated 1 year ago by @mweinelt Activity log

Created suggestion 1 year, 2 months ago
@fricklerhandwerk accepted 1 year, 2 months ago
@mweinelt published on GitHub 1 year ago

Openssh: denial-of-service in openssh

A flaw was found in the OpenSSH package. For each ping packet the SSH server receives, a pong packet is allocated in a memory buffer and stored in a queue of packages. It is only freed when the server/client key exchange has finished. A malicious client may keep sending such packages, leading to an uncontrolled increase in memory consumption on the server side. Consequently, the server may become unavailable, resulting in a denial of service attack.