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             AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution

                          ESB-2007.0226 -- [AIX]
                         IBM AIX OpenSSH advisory
                               5 April 2007

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        AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product:              OpenSSH versions prior to 4.3p2
Publisher:            IBM
Operating System:     AIX
Impact:               Execute Arbitrary Code/Commands
                      Denial of Service
Access:               Remote/Unauthenticated
CVE Names:            CVE-2006-5051 CVE-2006-4924

Ref:                  ESB-2006.0709

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IBM SECURITY ADVISORY
First Issued: Wed Apr  4 09:05:40 CDT 2007

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                           VULNERABILITY SUMMARY

VULNERABILITY:      Remotely exploitable denial of service vulnerabilities
                    in OpenSSH.

PLATFORMS:          OpenSSH 4.3p2 for AIX 5.2, 5.3

SOLUTION:           Apply the APAR, interim fix or workaround as 
                    described below.

THREAT:             A remote attacker may cause a denial of service.

CERT VU Number:     n/a
CVE Number:         CVE-2006-4924 and CVE-2006-5051
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                           DETAILED INFORMATION


I.  Description
===============

IBM provides OpenSSH for AIX. OpenSSH 4.3p2 for AIX is affected by two
remotely exploitable denial of service vulnerabilities. First, CVE-2006-4924
allows a remote attacker to cause CPU consumption when sshd is configured
to allow the SSH version 1 protocol. Second, CVE-2006-5051 allows a remote
attacker to cause sshd to crash. If sshd is configured to allow GSSAPI
based authentication, the attacker may execute arbitrary code.


II. Impact
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A remote attacker may cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code.


III.  Solutions
===============

A. Fix

OpenSSH 4.3p2-r2 for AIX 5.2 and 5.3 is available for download from:

     http://sourceforge.net/projects/openssh-aix/

B. Workaround

A. CVE-2006-4924
sshd uses the Protocol keyword in sshd_config to determine which version of
the SSH protocol to use. To configure sshd to use only version 2 of the SSH
protocol, Protocol should be set to "2". 

B. CVE-2006-5051
ssh uses the GSSAPIAuthentication keyword in sshd_config to determine if to
allow GSSAPI authentication and it is off by default. Ensuring that GSSAPI
authentication is not allowed will prevent a remote attacker from executing
arbitrary code but the denial of service attack will still be possible.


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