Security Advisory

CVE-2008-4109

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-09-17 18:06:00

Last updated 2024-08-07 10:00:42

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

Description

A certain Debian patch for OpenSSH before 4.3p2-9etch3 on etch; before 4.6p1-1 on sid and lenny; and on other distributions such as SUSE uses functions that are not async-signal-safe in the signal handler for login timeouts, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection slot exhaustion) via multiple login attempts. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2006-5051.

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