CVE-2006-4925
mediumpriority · track · 25EPSS 0.150 · 97 %ileEUUSgrimoire priorityP1 · Urgent
Exploitable?
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no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
15.0% (97th) EPSS
CVSS 5 · medium
Who says so?
2 sources
enisa_euvd · nvd
EPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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.
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cvss
Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
5.0
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode
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weaknesses
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CWE-476USLLM-inferred
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affected products (2)
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also known as (2)
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sources
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published 2006-09-29modified 2026-06-16
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references (28)
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148228enisa_euvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22245enisa_euvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22298enisa_euvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22495enisa_euvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23038enisa_euvd
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:179enisa_euvd
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_24_sr.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_62_openssh.htmlenisa_euvd
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