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Description

A security regression (CVE-2006-5051) was discovered in OpenSSH's server (sshd). There is a race condition which can lead sshd to handle some signals in an unsafe manner. An unauthenticated, remote attacker may be able to trigger it by failing to authenticate within a set time period.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2024-06-27 | Published 2024-07-01 | Updated 2025-07-24 | Assigner redhat




HIGH: 8.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Problem types

Signal Handler Race Condition

Product status

Default status
unaffected

8.5p1 (custom)
affected

Default status
affected

0:8.7p1-38.el9_4.1 (rpm) before *
unaffected

Default status
affected

0:8.7p1-38.el9_4.1 (rpm) before *
unaffected

Default status
affected

0:8.7p1-12.el9_0.1 (rpm) before *
unaffected

Default status
affected

0:8.7p1-30.el9_2.4 (rpm) before *
unaffected

Default status
affected

413.92.202407091321-0 (rpm) before *
unaffected

Default status
affected

414.92.202407091253-0 (rpm) before *
unaffected

Default status
affected

415.92.202407091355-0 (rpm) before *
unaffected

Default status
affected

416.94.202407081958-0 (rpm) before *
unaffected

Default status
unaffected

Default status
affected

Default status
affected

Default status
affected

Default status
unaffected

Default status
unaffected

Default status
unaffected

Timeline

2024-06-27:Reported to Red Hat.
2024-07-01:Made public.

Credits

Red Hat would like to thank Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU) (Qualys) for reporting this issue.

References

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4312 (RHSA-2024:4312) vendor-advisory

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4340 (RHSA-2024:4340) vendor-advisory

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4389 (RHSA-2024:4389) vendor-advisory

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4469 (RHSA-2024:4469) vendor-advisory

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4474 (RHSA-2024:4474) vendor-advisory

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4479 (RHSA-2024:4479) vendor-advisory

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4484 (RHSA-2024:4484) vendor-advisory

access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-6387 vdb-entry

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2294604 (RHBZ#2294604) issue-tracking

santandersecurityresearch.github.io/...shing_the_masses.html

www.openssh.com/txt/release-9.8

www.qualys.com/2024/07/01/cve-2024-6387/regresshion.txt

cve.org (CVE-2024-6387)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2024-6387)

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