CVE-2017-9078
HIGH8.8EPSS 4.1%dropbear - security update
Published: 5/19/2017Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
The server in Dropbear before 2017.75 might allow post-authentication root remote code execution because of a double free in cleanup of TCP listeners when the -a option is enabled.
Affected packages (3)
- Alpine/dropbearfrom 0, < 2017.75-r0
- Debian/dropbearfrom 0, < 2016.74-5
- Debian/dropbearfrom 0, < 2014.65-1+deb8u2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |