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Vigil@nce - OpenSSH: unreachable memory reading
March 2016 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can force a read at an invalid address of OpenSSH, in
order to trigger a denial of service.
Impacted products: Fedora, Copssh, OpenSSH.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 14/01/2016.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The OpenSSH product implements a SSH service.
However, it tries to read an unreachable memory area, which
triggers a fatal error.
An attacker can therefore force a read at an invalid address of
OpenSSH, in order to trigger a denial of service.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/OpenSSH-unreachable-memory-reading-18732
