It was found that dropbear before version 2013.59 with GSSAPI leaks whether given username is valid or invalid. When an invalid username is given, the GSSAPI authentication failure was incorrectly counted towards the maximum allowed number of password attempts.
References
Link Resource
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2659 Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
https://secure.ucc.asn.au/hg/dropbear/rev/d7784616409a#l1.86 Patch Third Party Advisory
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2019-03-20T20:44:51

Updated: 2019-03-20T20:44:51

Reserved: 2016-12-01T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2017-2659

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-03-21T15:59:57.093

Modified: 2019-10-09T23:27:02.337


Link: CVE-2017-2659

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cve-icon Redhat Information

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