DEBIAN-CVE-2008-5161

Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-5161
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-5161.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-5161
Upstream
Published
2008-11-19T17:30:00Z
Modified
2026-09-01T20:02:56Z
Severity
  • 3.7 (Low) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Error handling in the SSH protocol in (1) SSH Tectia Client and Server and Connector 4.0 through 4.4.11, 5.0 through 5.2.4, and 5.3 through 5.3.8; Client and Server and ConnectSecure 6.0 through 6.0.4; Server for Linux on IBM System z 6.0.4; Server for IBM z/OS 5.5.1 and earlier, 6.0.0, and 6.0.1; and Client 4.0-J through 4.3.3-J and 4.0-K through 4.3.10-K; and (2) OpenSSH 4.7p1 and possibly other versions, when using a block cipher algorithm in Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) mode, makes it easier for remote attackers to recover certain plaintext data from an arbitrary block of ciphertext in an SSH session via unknown vectors.

References

Affected packages

Debian:12 / openssh

Package

Name
openssh
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/openssh?arch=source&distro=bookworm

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1:5.1p1-5

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "low"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-5161.json"

Debian:13 / openssh

Package

Name
openssh
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/openssh?arch=source&distro=trixie

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1:5.1p1-5

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "low"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-5161.json"

Debian:14 / openssh

Package

Name
openssh
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/openssh?arch=source&distro=forky

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1:5.1p1-5

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "low"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-5161.json"