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CVE-2008-6899

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2009-08-05 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in freeSSHd 1.2.1 allow remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash) and execute arbitrary code via a long (1) open, (2) unlink, (3) mkdir, (4) rmdir, or (5) stat SFTP command.

Affected products

• freeSSHd: 1.2.1

References

• http://www.bmgsec.com.au/advisories/freeSSHd-bof.txt
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499486/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32972
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52434
• http://www.bmgsec.com.au/advisories/freeSSHd-bof.txt
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499486/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32972
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52434

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