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HIGH

unsafe GSSAPI signal handler

Published Sep 27, 2006

Description

Signal handler race condition in OpenSSH before 4.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash), and possibly execute arbitrary code if GSSAPI authentication is enabled, via unspecified vectors that lead to a double-free.

Affected products

Remediation

Red Hat statement

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

Weaknesses (1)

References (62)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner redhat
Published Sep 27, 2006
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Sep 27, 2006
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Important
Public date Sep 28, 2006