CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-0883
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-03-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
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.
Affected configurations
• openbsd openssh 3.8.1p1
• freebsd freebsd 5.3
• freebsd freebsd 5.4
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:09.openssh.asc ftp.freebsd.org
- http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=839 bugzilla.mindrot.org
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/520 securityreason.com
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1015706 Patch
- http://www.osvdb.org/23797 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16892 Patch
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0805 Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25116 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:09.openssh.asc ftp.freebsd.org
- http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=839 bugzilla.mindrot.org
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/520 securityreason.com
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1015706 Patch
- http://www.osvdb.org/23797 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16892 Patch
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0805 Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25116 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com