Bug 1380296 - openssh: Null pointer dereference due to early NEWKEYS
Summary: openssh: Null pointer dereference due to early NEWKEYS
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1380297
Blocks: 1380299
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Reported: 2016-09-29 08:37 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:57 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:59:12 UTC
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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.
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