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Lysator LSH remote Denial of Service (DoS)

Article ID: 17352
Last updated: 27 Jan, 2009
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Posted: 22 Jan, 2009
by: Tech Pubs S.
Updated: 27 Jan, 2009
by: Tech Pubs S.

Lysator LSH remote Denial of Service (DoS)

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FamilyDenial of Service
Plugin ID17352
Bugtraq ID12829
CVE ID

Description:

The remote host is running Lysators LSH, a version of Secure Shell
(SSH) which is available for Unix-like platforms.
This version of LSH is reported vulnerable to a Denial of Service
attack.

An attacker can exploit this issue by sending a malformed key exchange
message.

Solution : Upgrade to LSH 2.0.1 or later

Risk factor : High
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