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CVE-2024-6409

Openssh: possible remote code execution due to a race condition in signal handling affecting red hat enterprise linux 9



Description

A race condition vulnerability was discovered in how signals are handled by OpenSSH's server (sshd). If a remote attacker does not authenticate within a set time period, then sshd's SIGALRM handler is called asynchronously. However, this signal handler calls various functions that are not async-signal-safe, for example, syslog(). As a consequence of a successful attack, in the worst case scenario, an attacker may be able to perform a remote code execution (RCE) as an unprivileged user running the sshd server.

Reserved 2024-06-28 | Published 2024-07-08 | Updated 2025-05-22 | Assigner redhat


HIGH: 7.0CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

Problem types

Signal Handler Race Condition

Product status

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unaffected

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affected

0:8.7p1-38.el9_4.4 before *
unaffected

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affected

0:8.7p1-38.el9_4.4 before *
unaffected

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affected

0:8.7p1-12.el9_0.3 before *
unaffected

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affected

0:8.7p1-30.el9_2.7 before *
unaffected

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affected

413.92.202408122222-0 before *
unaffected

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affected

414.92.202407300859-0 before *
unaffected

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affected

415.92.202407301159-0 before *
unaffected

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affected

416.94.202407171205-0 before *
unaffected

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unaffected

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unaffected

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unaffected

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unaffected

Timeline

2024-07-01:Reported to Red Hat.
2024-07-08:Made public.

Credits

Red Hat would like to thank Solar Designer (CIQ/Rocky Linux) for reporting this issue.

References

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4457 (RHSA-2024:4457) vendor-advisory

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4613 (RHSA-2024:4613) vendor-advisory

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4716 (RHSA-2024:4716) vendor-advisory

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4910 (RHSA-2024:4910) vendor-advisory

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4955 (RHSA-2024:4955) vendor-advisory

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4960 (RHSA-2024:4960) vendor-advisory

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:5444 (RHSA-2024:5444) vendor-advisory

access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-6409 vdb-entry

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2295085 (RHBZ#2295085) issue-tracking

cve.org (CVE-2024-6409)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2024-6409)

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