CVE-2006-0883

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CVE-2006-0883

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CVE-2006-0883 at MITRE

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.

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 153308 [RESOLVED / INVALID]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 01:45:05 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Oct 7 12:45:32 2022