CVE-2024-6409 (GCVE-0-2024-6409)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-07-08 17:57
Modified
2025-11-11 16:04
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CWE
- CWE-364 - Signal Handler Race Condition
Summary
A race condition vulnerability was discovered in how signals are handled by OpenSSH's server (sshd). If a remote attacker does not authenticate within a set time period, then sshd's SIGALRM handler is called asynchronously. However, this signal handler calls various functions that are not async-signal-safe, for example, syslog(). As a consequence of a successful attack, in the worst case scenario, an attacker may be able to perform a remote code execution (RCE) as an unprivileged user running the sshd server.
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