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CVE-2003-0695 (GCVE-0-2003-0695)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2003-09-18 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 02:05
VLAI
Summary
Multiple "buffer management errors" in OpenSSH before 3.7.1 may allow attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code using (1) buffer_init in buffer.c, (2) buffer_free in buffer.c, or (3) a separate function in channels.c, a different vulnerability than CVE-2003-0693.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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Date Public
2003-09-16 00:00
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  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.


Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.