VULNERABILITY

FreeBSD: VID-A8F1EE74-F267-11EF-87BA-002590C1F29C (CVE-2025-26465): FreeBSD -- Multiple vulnerabilities in OpenSSH

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FreeBSD: VID-A8F1EE74-F267-11EF-87BA-002590C1F29C (CVE-2025-26465): FreeBSD -- Multiple vulnerabilities in OpenSSH

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N)
Published
02/18/2025
Created
03/10/2025
Added
02/25/2025
Modified
03/14/2025

Description

A vulnerability was found in OpenSSH when the VerifyHostKeyDNS option is enabled. A machine-in-the-middle attack can be performed by a malicious machine impersonating a legit server. This issue occurs due to how OpenSSH mishandles error codes in specific conditions when verifying the host key. For an attack to be considered successful, the attacker needs to manage to exhaust the client's memory resource first, turning the attack complexity high.

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-base-13_4-release-p4
  • freebsd-upgrade-base-14_1-release-p8
  • freebsd-upgrade-base-14_2-release-p2
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-openssh-portable
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-openssh-portable-gssapi
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-openssh-portable-hpn

References

  • CVE-2025-26465

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