CVE-2006-1206

published 2006-03-14

CVE-2006-1206: 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…

Priority P4 23 medium 5 CVSS 2.0

AV N AC L Au N C N I N A P

EXPLOIT

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.

Affected

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	dropbear	< dropbear 0.48-1 (bookworm)	dropbear 0.48-1 (bookworm)
dropbear_ssh_project	dropbear_ssh	<= 0.47	—
dropbear_ssh_project	dropbear_ssh	>= 0 < 0.48-1	0.48-1
dropbear_ssh_project	dropbear_ssh	>= 0 < 0.48-1	0.48-1
dropbear_ssh_project	dropbear_ssh	>= 0 < 0.48-1	0.48-1
dropbear_ssh_project	dropbear_ssh	>= 0 < 0.48-1	0.48-1

CVSS provenance

nvd v2.0 5.0 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

osv 5.0 MEDIUM

vendor_debian 5.0 MEDIUM

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