suse · CVE-2012-4561

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Priority: medium Published: 2021-05-30 13:06:25 UTC Updated: 2026-04-18 19:08:00 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2012-4561 severity moderate: SUSE including 36 source package names (libssh, libssh-config-0.10.6-1.12, …), 65 product×package rows across 29 product lines (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1, … (29 product lines)): Fixed 52, Known Not Affected 13.

Description:

The (1) publickey_make_dss, (2) publickey_make_rsa, (3) signature_from_string, (4) ssh_do_sign, and (5) ssh_sign_session_id functions in keys.c in libssh before 0.5.3 free "an invalid pointer on an error path," which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unspecified vectors.

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