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CVSSv2

CVE-2006-1206

Published: 14/03/2006 Updated: 30/10/2018
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 505
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Matt Johnston Dropbear SSH server 0.47 and previous versions, as used in embedded Linux devices and on general-purpose operating systems, allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (connection slot exhaustion) via a large number of connection attempts that exceeds the MAX_UNAUTH_CLIENTS defined value of 30.

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Exploits

#!/usr/bin/perl ## I needed a working test script so here it is ## just a keep alive thread, I had a few problems with Pablo's code running properly ## ## Straight from Pablo Fernandez's advisory: # Vulnerable code is in svr-mainc # # /* check for max number of connections not authorised */ # for (j = 0; j < MAX_UNAUTH_CLIENTS; j++) { # ...