Denial of Service Vulnerability in Dropbear SSH Server's buf_decompress Function

CVE-2013-4421 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The buf_decompress function in packet.c in Dropbear SSH Server before 2013.59 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a compressed packet that has a large size when it is decompressed.

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