CVE-2008-4109
8Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 29%
exploitation probability
29%top 2% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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 products
n/a · n/aReferences
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=498678http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00004.htmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/31885http://secunia.com/advisories/32080http://secunia.com/advisories/32181https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45202http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1638http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/01/3http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020891http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-649-1