CVE-2023-3603

CVSS 3.1 Score 7.8 of 10 (high)

Details

Published Jul 21, 2023
Updated: May 23, 2024
CWE ID 787
CWE ID 122

Summary

CVE-2023-3603 is a vulnerability affecting sftp servers due to a missing allocation check during read requests. Under low-memory conditions, this issue can lead to a NULL dereference. Malicious clients can exploit this by requesting large SFTP reads, causing the allocation of up to 4GB buffers. This can result in the crashing of the user's sftp server connection for forking implementations. For thread-based servers, this could also cause Denial of Service (DoS) attacks against legitimate users. However, as this code has not been released in any versions, no security updates have been issued yet.

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