Vulnerability CVE-2012-2385
Published: 2012-06-29

Description:
The terminal dispatcher in mosh before 1.2.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (long loop and CPU consumption) via an escape sequence with a large repeat count value.

Type:

CWE-399

 (Resource Management Errors)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4/10
2.9/10
8/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
Single time
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Keith winstein -> MOSH 

 References:
https://github.com/keithw/mosh/commit/9791768705528e911bfca6c4d8aa88139035060e
https://github.com/keithw/mosh/issues/271
https://github.com/keithw/mosh/blob/master/ChangeLog
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823943
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/22/9
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082850.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082814.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082766.html
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