Vulnerability in Dropbear SSH Project
CVE-2005-4178
Buffer overflow in Dropbear server before 0.47 allows authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via unspecified inputs that cause insufficient memory to be allocated due to an incorrect expression that does not enforce the proper order of operations.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.034 (88.5th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 89th percentile — 88.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.034 · newest: 0.034 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Dropbear SSH Project
- Debian Linux — versions 3.0, 3.1
References
- secunia.com/advisories/18142 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/15923/ (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/dropbear/2005q4/000312.html (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, Patch)
- secunia.com/advisories/18109 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200512-13.xml (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-923 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/18108 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2962 (Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)