CVE-2006-0883

Published Mar 7, 2006

Last updated 7 years ago

Overview

Description: OpenSSH on FreeBSD 5.3 and 5.4, when used with OpenPAM, does not properly handle when a forked child process terminates during PAM authentication, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (client connection refusal) by connecting multiple times to the SSH server, waiting for the password prompt, then disconnecting.
Source: secteam@freebsd.org
NVD status: Modified

Hype score: Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 5
Impact score: 2.9
Exploitability score: 10
Vector string: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-399

Vendor comments

Red HatThis issue did not affect the versions of OpenSSH as distributed with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4.

Configurations

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Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Weaknesses

Vendor comments

Configurations

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