vulnerability

F5 Networks: CVE-2024-6409: K000140975: OpenSSH vulnerability CVE-2024-6409

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C)
Published
Jul 8, 2024
Added
Sep 9, 2024
Modified
Feb 18, 2025

Description

A race condition vulnerability was discovered in how signals are handled by OpenSSH's server (sshd). If a remote attacker does not authenticate within a set time period, then sshd's SIGALRM handler is called asynchronously. However, this signal handler calls various functions that are not async-signal-safe, for example, syslog(). As a consequence of a successful attack, in the worst case scenario, an attacker may be able to perform a remote code execution (RCE) as an unprivileged user running the sshd server.

Solution

f5-big-ip-upgrade-latest
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