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CVE-2005-4178
Buffer overflow in Dropbear server before 0.47 allows authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via unspecified inputs that cause…
Medium6.5EPSS 3.4%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- debian
Description
Buffer overflow in Dropbear server before 0.47 allows authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via unspecified inputs that cause insufficient memory to be allocated due to an incorrect expression that does not enforce the proper order of operations.
Timeline
ID reserved
By debian
Published
- 19 years later
· 19 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.4% · top 11% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (9)
- 18142 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 15923 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [dropbear] 20051211 Dropbear 0.47 (and security fix) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 18109 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- GLSA-200512-13 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- DSA-923 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 18108 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- ADV-2005-2962 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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