CVE-2017-2659
Description
It was found that dropbear, with GSSAPI, leaks whether the given username is valid or invalid. When an invalid username is given, the GSSAPI authentication failure was incorrectly counted towards the maximum allowed number of password attempts.
Statement
Red Hat Product Security has determined that this vulnerability does not affect any currently supported Red Hat product. This assessment may evolve based on further analysis and discovery. For more information about this vulnerability and the products it affects, please see the linked references.
Acknowledgements
Red Hat would like to thank Gilford Martino (Bae Systems) and Scott McKee (Bae Systems) for reporting this issue.
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