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CVE-2011-5000

N/A

Published: April 4, 2012 at 10:00 AM UTC

Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:35 PM UTC

1 product affected across 1 vendorOpenSSH

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 3%

Description

The ssh_gssapi_parse_ename function in gss-serv.c in OpenSSH 5.8 and earlier, when gssapi-with-mic authentication is enabled, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large value in a certain length field. NOTE: there may be limited scenarios in which this issue is relevant.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

OpenSSH · Openbsd

95%

v ≤ 5.81.2 1.2.1 1.2.2 1.2.27 1.2.3 1.3 1.5 1.5.7 1.5.8 3.0 3.0.1 3.0.1p1 3.0.2 3.0.2p1 3.0p1 3.1 3.1p1 3.2 3.2.2 3.2.2p1 3.2.3p1 3.3 3.3p1 3.4 3.4p1 3.5 3.5p1 3.6 3.6.1 3.6.1p1 3.6.1p2 3.7 3.7.1 3.7.1p1 3.7.1p2 3.8 3.8.1 3.8.1p1 3.9 3.9.1 3.9.1p1 4.0 4.0p1 4.1 4.1p1 4.2 4.2p1 4.3 4.3p1 4.3p2 4.4 4.4p1 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 4.9 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0884.html

References (3)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT

Source: [email protected]

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0884.html

Mailing Listx_refsource_FULLDISCExploit

Source: [email protected]

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Aug/2

x_refsource_MISCExploit

Source: [email protected]

http://site.pi3.com.pl/adv/ssh_1.txt

CVSS

3.5LOW[email protected]

Confidentiality: NONE
Integrity: NONE
Availability: PARTIAL

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

CWE-189

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