CVE-2004-2760

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2004-04-12
Bugzilla:
457832: CVE-2004-2760 openssh information disclosure

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

sshd in OpenSSH 3.5p1, when PermitRootLogin is disabled, immediately closes the TCP connection after a root login attempt with the correct password, but leaves the connection open after an attempt with an incorrect password, which makes it easier for remote attackers to guess the password by observing the connection state, a different vulnerability than CVE-2003-0190. NOTE: it could be argued that in most environments, this does not cross privilege boundaries without requiring leverage of a separate vulnerability.

Find out more about CVE-2004-2760 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

The risks associated with fixing this bug are greater than the low severity security risk. We therefore currently have no plans to fix this flaw in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 which is in maintenance mode.

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