CVE-2006-5794
Description
From CVE.org
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.
Statement
This issue did not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.
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