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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-2385

Original release date:06/29/2012

Last revised:08/17/2012

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

The terminal dispatcher in mosh before 1.2.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (long loop and CPU consumption) via an escape sequence with a large repeat count value.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:4.0 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 2.9

Exploitability Subscore: 8.0

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Network exploitable

Access Complexity: Low

Authentication: Required to exploit

Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://github.com/keithw/mosh/commit/9791768705528e911bfca6c4d8aa88139035060e

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:https://github.com/keithw/mosh/commit/9791768705528e911bfca6c4d8aa88139035060e

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://github.com/keithw/mosh/issues/271

Hyperlink:https://github.com/keithw/mosh/issues/271

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://github.com/keithw/mosh/blob/master/ChangeLog

Hyperlink:https://github.com/keithw/mosh/blob/master/ChangeLog

External Source: MISC

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823943

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823943

External Source: XF

Name: mosh-sequences-dos(75779)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/75779

External Source: BID

Name: 53646

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53646

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20120522 Re: CVE Request -- mosh (and probably vte too): mosh server DoS (long loop) due improper parsing of terminal parameters in terminal dispatcher

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/22/9

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 49260

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/49260

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2012-9442

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082850.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2012-9414

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082814.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2012-9422