CVE-2014-8132

medium
Published 2014-12-29 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

Double free vulnerability in the ssh_packet_kexinit function in kex.c in libssh 0.5.x and 0.6.x before 0.6.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted kexinit packet.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

fedora Fedora Affected 3 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
21 Affected โ€”
20 Affected โ€”
19 Affected โ€”
suse SUSE Affected 3 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
13.2 Affected โ€”
13.1 Affected โ€”
12.3 Affected โ€”
ubuntu Ubuntu Affected 3 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
14.10 Affected โ€”
14.04 Affected โ€”
12.04 Affected โ€”
debian Debian Mixed 7 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 0.6.3-4
sid Fixed 0.6.3-4
forky Fixed 0.6.3-4
bullseye Fixed 0.6.3-4
bookworm Fixed 0.6.3-4
8.0 Affected โ€”
7.0 Affected โ€”

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
libsshlibssh0.5.0
libsshlibssh0.5.2
libsshlibssh0.5.3
libsshlibssh0.5.4
libsshlibssh0.5.5
libsshlibssh0.6.0
libsshlibssh0.6.1
libsshlibssh0.6.2
libsshlibssh0.6.3

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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