CVE-2012-6063

NameCVE-2012-6063
DescriptionDouble free vulnerability in the sftp_mkdir function in sftp.c in libssh before 0.5.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vector than CVE-2012-4559.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-2577-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
libssh (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)0.6.3-4+deb8u6fixed
stretch (security)0.7.3-2+deb9u3fixed
stretch (lts), stretch0.7.3-2+deb9u4fixed
buster (security), buster, buster (lts)0.8.7-1+deb10u2fixed
bullseye (security), bullseye0.9.8-0+deb11u1fixed
bookworm (security), bookworm0.10.6-0+deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie0.11.1-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
libsshsourcesqueeze0.4.5-3+squeeze1
libsshsource(unstable)0.5.3-1

Notes

Fix included in CVE-2012-4559 patch
https://red.libssh.org/issues/84
http://git.libssh.org/projects/libssh.git/commit/?h=v0-5&id=4d8420f3282ed07fc99fc5e930c17df27ef1e9b2

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