CVE-2005-4178: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 3.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 3.0 only; version 3.1 only
• Dropbear SSH Project Dropbear SSH: before 0.47 (fixed in 0.47)

Published 2005-12-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.