CVE-2007-4654 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can crash Cisco Content Services Switch devices by sending large packets that exploit an SSH overflow, causing denial of service.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2007-4654?
CVE-2007-4654 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in OpenSSH, published on 4 Sep 2007. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Unspecified vulnerability in SSHield 1.6.1 with OpenSSH 3.0.2p1 on Cisco WebNS 8.20.0.1 on Cisco Content Services Switch (CSS) series 11000 devices allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection slot exhaustion and device crash) via a series of large packets designed to exploit the SSH CRC32 attack detection overflow (CVE-2001-0144), possibly a related issue to CVE-2002-1024.
Weakness: CWE-399
Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-4654?
It affects 3 products.
Products include Cisco Webns, OpenSSH, Teamf1 Sshield.
How do I fix CVE-2007-4654?
No fix has been published for CVE-2007-4654 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2007-4654 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-4654 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in OpenSSH
Sources
Also known as GHSA-mw6p-g59x-wqvw.