CVE-2014-8132
Status: ModifiedMedium (5)—
Double free vulnerability in the ssh_packet_kexinit function in kex.c in libssh 0.5.x and 0.6.x before 0.6.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted kexinit packet.
CVSS
- Version: 2.0
- Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Base score: 5
Exploitation probability (EPSS)
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 5.15%
- Percentile among all scored CVEs: 92
- Score date: 10/11/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).
Affected technologies (5)
CWEs
- NVD-CWE-Other
References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0014.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147367.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147452.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147464.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-01/msg00007.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60838
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3488
- http://www.libssh.org/2014/12/19/libssh-0-6-4-security-and-bugfix-release/
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:020
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2478-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1158089
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-12
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0014.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147367.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147452.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147464.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-01/msg00007.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60838
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3488
- http://www.libssh.org/2014/12/19/libssh-0-6-4-security-and-bugfix-release/
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:020
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2478-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1158089
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-12
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