CVE-2008-0852

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-02-21 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

freeSSHd 1.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS packet to TCP port 22, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

Affected products

freeSSHd: through 1.2

References

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/freesshdnull-adv.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/29002
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488363/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27845
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0591
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/freesshdnull-adv.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/29002
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488363/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27845
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0591

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