vulnerability

OpenSSH Vulnerability: CVE-2023-25136

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:C)
Published
Feb 3, 2023
Added
Feb 13, 2023
Modified
Apr 17, 2026

Description

OpenSSH server (sshd) 9.1 introduced a double-free vulnerability during options.kex_algorithms handling. This is fixed in OpenSSH 9.2. The double free can be leveraged, by an unauthenticated remote attacker in the default configuration, to jump to any location in the sshd address space. One third-party report states "remote code execution is theoretically possible."

Solution

openbsd-openssh-upgrade-latest
Title
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