CVE-2014-8132

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-12-29 · updated 2026-06-17

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.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 14.10
Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 19, 20, 21
libssh: 0.5.0, 0.5.2, 0.5.3, 0.5.4, 0.5.5, 0.6.0 (+3)
Opensuse: 12.3, 13.1, 13.2

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0014.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147367.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147452.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147464.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-01/msg00007.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/60838
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3488
http://www.libssh.org/2014/12/19/libssh-0-6-4-security-and-bugfix-release/
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:020
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2478-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1158089
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-12

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