CVE-2012-4559 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2012-4559

Multiple double free vulnerabilities in the (1) agent_sign_data function in...

Vulnerability Description

Multiple double free vulnerabilities in the (1) agent_sign_data function in agent.c, (2) channel_request function in channels.c, (3) ssh_userauth_pubkey function in auth.c, (4) sftp_parse_attr_3 function in sftp.c, and (5) try_publickey_from_file function in keyfiles.c in libssh before 0.5.3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

libssh
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 0.4.7, 0.4.8, 0.5.0, 0.5.1

Timeline

Official Publish: November 30th, 2012
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.