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CVE-2006-5794 Detail

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the sshd Privilege Separation Monitor in OpenSSH before 4.5 causes weaker verification that authentication has been successful, which might allow attackers to bypass authentication. NOTE: as of 20061108, it is believed that this issue is only exploitable by leveraging vulnerabilities in the unprivileged process, which are not known to exist.


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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (09/24/2009)

This issue did not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1. This issue was addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4 via https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0738.html . Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20061201-01-P.asc CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0738.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/22771 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22772 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/22773 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22778 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/22814 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/22872 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/22932 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/23513 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/23680 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/24055 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017183 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=461854&group_id=69227 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=461863&group_id=69227 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-048.htm CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:204 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_26_sr.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.openpkg.org/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.032-openssh.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.openssh.org/txt/release-4.5 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/451100/100/0/threaded CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20956 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch 
http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-3069097-patch.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-9986131-patch.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4399 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4400 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30120 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-766 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11840 CVE, Inc., Red Hat

Weakness Enumeration

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2006-5794
NVD Published Date:
11/08/2006
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.