CVE-2006-4925

Description

From CVE.org

packet.c in ssh in OpenSSH allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by sending an invalid protocol sequence with USERAUTH_SUCCESS before NEWKEYS, which causes newkeys[mode] to be NULL.

Statement

Red Hat does not consider this flaw a security issue. This flaw can cause an OpenSSH client to crash when connecting to a malicious server, which does not result in a denial of service condition.

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