OpenSSH: Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities — GLSA 200611-06

Several Denial of Service vulnerabilities have been identified in OpenSSH.

Affected packages

Background

OpenSSH is a complete SSH protocol version 1.3, 1.5 and 2.0 implementation and includes sftp client and server support.

Description

Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team has discovered a pre-authentication vulnerability, causing sshd to spin until the login grace time has been expired. Mark Dowd found an unsafe signal handler that was vulnerable to a race condition. It has also been discovered that when GSSAPI authentication is enabled, GSSAPI will in certain cases incorrectly abort.

Impact

The pre-authentication and signal handler vulnerabilities can cause a Denial of Service in OpenSSH. The vulnerability in the GSSAPI authentication abort could be used to determine the validity of usernames on some platforms.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/openssh-4.4_p1-r5"

References

• CVE-2006-5051
• CVE-2006-5052
• OpenSSH Security Advisory

Release date
November 13, 2006

Latest revision
November 13, 2006: 01

Severity
normal

Exploitable
remote

Bugzilla entries

• 149502