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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD5.3 Medium

CVE-2017-2659

It was found that dropbear before version 2013.59 with GSSAPI leaks whether given username is valid or invalid. When an invalid username is given, the GSSAPI authentication failure

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Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
redhat

Description

It was found that dropbear before version 2013.59 with GSSAPI leaks whether given username is valid or invalid. When an invalid username is given, the GSSAPI authentication failure was incorrectly counted towards the maximum allowed number of password attempts.

Affected products

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[UNKNOWN] dropbear

  • fixed in 2013.59affected

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