On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, Matt Johnston wrote:
> Dropbear 0.48 mitigates this issue by having a per-IP limit
> as well as a global limit - this will at least prevent an
> IP-deprived attacker from denying service.
>
> It's worth noting that various other network services (such
> as netkit-inetd and Op
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 07:47:57PM +, Pablo Fernandez wrote:
> Dropbear SSH server Denial of Service
> The vulnerability specifically exists due to a design error in the
> authorization-pending connections code. By default and as a #define of
> the MAX_UNAUTH_CLIENTS constant, th
it also works on openssh ;))
Dropbear SSH server Denial of Service
Credits: Pablo Fernandez
March 7th, 2006
I. BACKGROUND
Dropbear is a relatively small SSH 2 server and client. It runs on a
variety of POSIX-based platforms. Dropbear is open source software,
distributed under a MIT-style license. Dropbear is particularly
