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CVE-2006-0883

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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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published3/7/2006

Last Modified4/16/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

freebsd:freebsdopenbsd:openssh

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-399

References

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:09.openssh.asc(secteam@freebsd.org)

http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=839(secteam@freebsd.org)

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/520(secteam@freebsd.org)

http://securitytracker.com/id?1015706(secteam@freebsd.org)

http://www.osvdb.org/23797(secteam@freebsd.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16892(secteam@freebsd.org)

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0805(secteam@freebsd.org)

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25116(secteam@freebsd.org)

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:09.openssh.asc(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=839(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/520(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://securitytracker.com/id?1015706(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.osvdb.org/23797(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16892(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0805(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25116(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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