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 |
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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 |
History
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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
JSON object: View
NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 2019-03-21T15:59:57.093
Modified: 2019-10-09T23:27:02.337
Link: CVE-2017-2659
JSON object: View
Redhat Information
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