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openssh: denial of service

Package(s):openssh CVE #(s):CVE-2008-4109
Created:September 17, 2008 Updated:October 7, 2008
Description:

From the Debian advisory:

It has been discovered that the signal handler implementing the login timeout in Debian's version of the OpenSSH server uses functions which are not async-signal-safe, leading to a denial of service vulnerability (CVE-2008-4109).

The problem was originally corrected in OpenSSH 4.4p1 (CVE-2006-5051), but the patch backported to the version released with etch was incorrect.

Alerts:
SuSE SUSE-SR:2008:020 2008-10-07
Ubuntu USN-649-1 2008-10-01
Debian DSA-1638-1 2008-09-16

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