Bug 1380296

Summary:	openssh: Null pointer dereference due to early NEWKEYS
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	jjelen, mattias.ellert, plautrba, sardella, slawomir, tmraz
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Bug Depends On:	1380297
Bug Blocks:	1380299

Description Andrej Nemec 2016-09-29 08:37:40 UTC

A null pointer dereference vulnerability was found in openssh.

Upstream fix:

https://anongit.mindrot.org/openssh.git/commit/?id=28652bca29046f62c7045e933e6b931de1d16737

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-09-29 08:38:07 UTC

Created openssh tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1380297]

Comment 3 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-10-25 08:35:17 UTC

Analysis:

The attacker could use this flaw to crash his own connection and not crash the master listener server.