CVE-2005-4178
Buffer overflow in Dropbear server before 0.47 allows authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via unspecified inputs that cause insufficient memory to be allocated due to an incorrect expression
02 Description
Buffer overflow in Dropbear server before 0.47 allows authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via unspecified inputs that cause insufficient memory to be allocated due to an incorrect expression
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 3.44% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 88.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2005-12-12 21:00Z20 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 23:38Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2005-12-12
- Assigning CNA
- debian
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 403d949ee1f985f5b2f905d7bd428e88c16a2abb42c57face475efed53760e8f
05 Affected products
06 References
- secunia.com18142http://secunia.com/advisories/18142
- www.securityfocus.com15923http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15923/
- lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au[dropbear] 20051211 Dropbear 0.47 (and security fix)http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/dropbear/2005q4/000312.html
- secunia.com18109http://secunia.com/advisories/18109
- www.gentoo.orgGLSA-200512-13http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200512-13.xml
- www.debian.orgDSA-923http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-923
- secunia.com18108http://secunia.com/advisories/18108
- matt.ucc.asn.auhttp://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html
- www.vupen.comADV-2005-2962http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2962
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- dropbear Fixed in 0.47-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- dropbear Fixed in 0.47-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- dropbear Fixed in 0.47-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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