CVE-2010-4755
- Public Date:
- 2011-01-03
- Bugzilla:
- 681698: CVE-2010-4755 openssh: remote DoS in sftp via crafted glob expressions
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
The (1) remote_glob function in sftp-glob.c and the (2) process_put function in sftp.c in OpenSSH 5.8 and earlier, as used in FreeBSD 7.3 and 8.1, NetBSD 5.0.2, OpenBSD 4.7, and other products, allow remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via crafted glob expressions that do not match any pathnames, as demonstrated by glob expressions in SSH_FXP_STAT requests to an sftp daemon, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2632.
Find out more about CVE-2010-4755 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
Statement
We do not consider a denial of service flaw in a client application such as sftp to be a security issue.
CVSS v2 metrics
NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
| Base Score | 0 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:N |
| Access Vector | Local |
| Access Complexity | Low |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | None |
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Affected Packages State
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | openssh | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | openssh | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | openssh | Not affected |
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