CVE-2006-4925 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in OpenSSH's packet.c, affecting OpenBSD and OpenSSH. Remote attackers can crash the SSH server by sending an invalid protocol sequence (USERAUTH_SUCCESS before NEWKEYS), leading to a NULL pointer dereference. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity that results in partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) or significant community discussion exists for this older vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:openbsd:openssh:4.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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