CVE-2008-4109
EPSS 1.1%Published: 9/18/2008Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
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 packages (1)
- Debian/opensshfrom 0, < 1:4.6p1-1