CVE-2017-15271

Published Nov 15, 2017 CVSS 3.0 · 5.9 Medium EPSS 8.7% KEV · Not listed
Description
A use-after-free issue could be triggered remotely in the SFTP component of PSFTPd 10.0.4 Build 729. This issue could be triggered prior to authentication. The PSFTPd server did not automatically restart, which enabled attackers to perform a very effective DoS attack against this service. By sending a crafted SSH identification / version string to the server, a NULL pointer dereference could be caused, apparently because of a race condition in the window message handling, performing the cleanup for invalid connections. This incorrect cleanup code has a use-after-free.

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 5, 2024, 7:50 PM
Reserved
Oct 11, 2017, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Nov 15, 2017, 4:29 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 1:07 AM