Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 21, 2008· Updated Apr 23, 2026

CVE-2008-0852

Description

freeSSHd 1.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS packet to TCP port 22, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

Affected products

Freesshd/Freesshd
cpe:2.3:a:freesshd:freesshd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range: <=1.2

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/27845nvdExploit
secunia.com/advisories/29002nvdVendor Advisory
aluigi.altervista.org/adv/freesshdnull-adv.txtnvd
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488363/100/0/threadednvd
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0591nvd

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