PT-2006-2222 · Matt Johnston · Dropbear Ssh Server

Matt Johnston · Published 2006-03-14 · Updated 2018-10-30 · CVE-2006-1206

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Matt Johnston Dropbear SSH server versions 0.47 and earlier

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically connection slot exhaustion, by making a large number of connection attempts that exceeds the defined value of 30.

Recommendations For Matt Johnston Dropbear SSH server versions 0.47 and earlier, consider increasing the MAX UNAUTH CLIENTS value to a higher number to prevent connection slot exhaustion, or apply configuration changes to limit the number of concurrent connection attempts.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2006-1206

Affected Products

Dropbear Ssh Server

References · 9

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/1572 · Exploit
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-1206 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2006-1206 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2006-1206 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/17024 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-1206 · Security Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1015742 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25075 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/426999/100/0/threaded · Note