CVE-2006-5794
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
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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Statement
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.
Red Hat Security Errata
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (openssh) | RHSA-2006:0738 | 2006-11-15 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (openssh) | RHSA-2006:0738 | 2006-11-15 |
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