National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2005-4178
Original release date:12/12/2005
Last revised:03/08/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0 upgrade from v1.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
8.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides user account access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: MISC
Name: http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html
Type: Patch Information
External Source: MLIST
Name: [dropbear] 20051211 Dropbear 0.47 (and security fix)
Type: Patch Information
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2005-2962
External Source: BID
Name: 15923
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200512-13
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-923
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 18142
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 18109
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 18108
Type: Advisory
