CVE-2006-1206

medium
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Description

Matt Johnston Dropbear SSH server 0.47 and earlier, as used in embedded Linux devices and on general-purpose operating systems, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection slot exhaustion) via a large number of connection attempts that exceeds the MAX_UNAUTH_CLIENTS defined value of 30.

References

http://securitytracker.com/id?1015742

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426999/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17024

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25075

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2006-03-14

Updated: 2018-10-30

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Impact Score: 2.9

Exploitability Score: 10

Severity: MEDIUM

Vulnerable Software

Configuration 1

OR

cpe:2.3:a:dropbear_ssh_project:dropbear_ssh:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to 0.47 (inclusive)

Tenable Plugins

View all (2 total)

IDNameProductFamilySeverity
3466Dropbear SSH Server < 0.48.0 DoSNessus Network MonitorSSH
medium
21023Dropbear SSH Authorization-pending Connection Saturation DoSNessusDenial of Service
medium