How to remediate CVE-2010-5107

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Issue

  • How to remediate CVE-2010-5107

  • What is the fix for CVE-2010-5107?

  • Our security scan (Qualys) found that we are running a version of OpenSSH that is vulnerable to CVE-2010-5107. Their recommendation is to update to OpenSSH 6.1 or higher.

  • Does setting the "Maxstartups" parameter in /etc/ssh/sshd_config to 10:30:60 properly mitigate the security issue?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • OpenSSH 6.1

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