CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-4109
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-09-18
- 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-264
Description
A certain Debian patch for OpenSSH before 4.3p2-9etch3 on etch; before 4.6p1-1 on sid and lenny; and on other distributions such as SUSE uses functions that are not async-signal-safe in the signal handler for login timeouts, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection slot exhaustion) via multiple login attempts. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2006-5051.
Affected configurations
• openbsd openssh (<= 4.3p2)
• openbsd openssh 1.2
• openbsd openssh 1.2.1
• openbsd openssh 1.2.2
• openbsd openssh 1.2.3
• openbsd openssh 1.2.27
• openbsd openssh 1.3
• openbsd openssh 1.5
• openbsd openssh 1.5.7
• openbsd openssh 1.5.8
• openbsd openssh 2
• openbsd openssh 2.1
• openbsd openssh 2.1.1
• openbsd openssh 2.2
• openbsd openssh 2.3
• openbsd openssh 2.3.1
• openbsd openssh 2.5
• openbsd openssh 2.5.1
• openbsd openssh 2.5.2
• openbsd openssh 2.9
• openbsd openssh 2.9.9
• openbsd openssh 2.9.9p2
• openbsd openssh 2.9p1
• openbsd openssh 2.9p2
• openbsd openssh 3.0
• openbsd openssh 3.0.1
• openbsd openssh 3.0.1p1
• openbsd openssh 3.0.2
• openbsd openssh 3.0.2p1
• openbsd openssh 3.0p1
• openbsd openssh 3.1
• openbsd openssh 3.1p1
• openbsd openssh 3.2
• openbsd openssh 3.2.2
• openbsd openssh 3.2.2p1
• openbsd openssh 3.2.3p1
• openbsd openssh 3.3
• openbsd openssh 3.3p1
• openbsd openssh 3.4
• openbsd openssh 3.4p1
• openbsd openssh 3.5
• openbsd openssh 3.5p1
• openbsd openssh 3.6
• openbsd openssh 3.6.1
• openbsd openssh 3.6.1p1
• openbsd openssh 3.6.1p2
• openbsd openssh 3.7
• openbsd openssh 3.7.1
• openbsd openssh 3.7.1p1
• openbsd openssh 3.7.1p2
• openbsd openssh 3.8
• openbsd openssh 3.8.1
• openbsd openssh 3.8.1p1
• openbsd openssh 3.9
• openbsd openssh 3.9.1
• openbsd openssh 3.9.1p1
• openbsd openssh 4.0
• openbsd openssh 4.0p1
• openbsd openssh 4.1
• openbsd openssh 4.1p1
… and 8 more
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)
- CWE-828 Signal Handler with Functionality that is not Asynchronous-Safe weakness
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=498678 bugs.debian.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00004.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31885 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32080 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32181 secunia.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1638 Patch
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/01/3 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020891 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-649-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45202 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=498678 bugs.debian.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00004.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31885 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32080 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32181 secunia.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1638 Patch
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/01/3 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020891 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-649-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45202 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com