[OpenPKG-SA-2006.022] OpenPKG Security Advisory (openssh)
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OpenPKG Security Advisory The OpenPKG Project
http://www.openpkg.org/security/ http://www.openpkg.org
openpkg-security@xxxxxxxxxxx openpkg@xxxxxxxxxxx
OpenPKG-SA-2006.022 01-Oct-2006
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Package: openssh
Vulnerability: denial of service
OpenPKG Specific: no
OpenPKG Series: Affected Packages: Corrected Packages:
CURRENT <= openssh-4.3p2-20060924 >= openssh-4.4p1-20060928
2-STABLE <= openssh-4.3p2-2.20060622 >= openssh-4.4p1-2.20060929
2-STABLE-20060622 <= openssh-4.3p2-2.20060622 >= openssh-4.4p1-2.20060929
2.5-RELEASE <= openssh-4.2p1-2.5.3 >= openssh-4.2p1-2.5.4
Description:
According to a vendor security advisory [0], multiple vulnerabilities
exist in the Secure Shell (SSH) implementation OpenSSH [1]:
First, a pre-authentication denial of service was found by Tavis
Ormandy that would cause sshd(8) to spin until the login grace time
expired. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project
assigned the ids CVE-2006-4924 [2] and CVE-2006-4925 [3] to the
problem.
Second, an unsafe signal handler, reported by Mark Dowd, was fixed.
The signal handler was vulnerable to a race condition that could be
exploited to perform a pre-authentication denial of service. This
vulnerability could theoretically lead to pre-authentication remote
code execution if some authentication methods like GSSAPI are enabled,
but the likelihood of successful exploitation appears remote. The
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project assigned the id
CVE-2006-5051 [4] to the problem.
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References:
[0] http://www.openssh.com/txt/release-4.4
[1] http://www.openssh.com/
[2] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4924
[3] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4925
[4] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5051
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