How to remediate CVE-2010-5107
Issue
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How to remediate CVE-2010-5107
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What is the fix for CVE-2010-5107?
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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.
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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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