CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-1206

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2006-03-14 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-03-14
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

Description

Matt Johnston Dropbear SSH server 0.47 and earlier, as used in embedded Linux devices and on general-purpose operating systems, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection slot exhaustion) via a large number of connection attempts that exceeds the MAX_UNAUTH_CLIENTS defined value of 30.

Affected configurations

• dropbear ssh project dropbear ssh (<= 0.47)

References