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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.200012
Category:Gain a shell remotely
Title:FreeSSHD Key Exchange Buffer Overflow
Summary:A vulnerable version of FreeSSHd is installed on; the remote host.
Description:Summary:
A vulnerable version of FreeSSHd is installed on
the remote host.

Vulnerability Impact:
The version installed does not validate key exchange strings
send by a SSH client. This results in a buffer overflow and possible a compromise of the host
if the client is sending a long key exchange string.

Note :

At this point the FreeSSHD Service is reported down. You should start it manually again.

Solution:
Upgrade to the latest release.
See the references for more information.

CVSS Score:
7.5

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2006-2407
BugTraq ID: 17958
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17958
Bugtraq: 20060514 POC exploit for freeSSHd version 1.0.9 (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434007/100/0/threaded
Bugtraq: 20060515 Re: [Full-disclosure] POC exploit for freeSSHd version 1.0.9 (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434038/100/0/threaded
Bugtraq: 20060517 BUGTRAQ:20060517 Re:POC exploit for freeFTPd 1.0.10 (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434415/100/0/threaded
Bugtraq: 20060517 POC exploit for freeFTPd 1.0.10 (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434402/100/0/threaded
Bugtraq: 20060517 Re:POC exploit for freeFTPd 1.0.10 (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434415/30/4920/threaded
CERT/CC vulnerability note: VU#477960
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/477960
http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=114764338702488&w=2
http://www.osvdb.org/25463
http://www.osvdb.org/25569
http://secunia.com/advisories/19845
http://secunia.com/advisories/19846
http://secunia.com/advisories/20136
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/901
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1785
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1786
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1842
XForce ISS Database: freesshd-key-exchange-bo(26442)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26442
CopyrightCopyright (C) 2008 Ferdy Riphagen

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