CVE-2006-0883

Impact

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 products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=839
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/520
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1015706
• http://www.osvdb.org/23797
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16892
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0805
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25116
• http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=839
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/520
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1015706
• http://www.osvdb.org/23797
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16892
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0805
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25116