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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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2008-09-17T18:06:00

Updated: 2024-07-01T10:06:08.789359

Reserved: 2008-09-16T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2008-4109

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2008-09-18T15:04:27.437

Modified: 2017-08-08T01:32:25.653


Link: CVE-2008-4109

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