Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team discovered a denial of service attack on the openssh sshd daemon when ssh protocol version 1 is enabled. This flaw will cause the openssh server to consume a large quantity of the CPU until the specified timeout is reached. The upstream patches can be found here: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/ssh/deattack.c.diff?r1=1.29&r2=1.30&sortby=date&f=h http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/ssh/packet.c.diff?r1=1.143&r2=1.144&sortby=date&f=h http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/ssh/deattack.h.diff?r1=1.9&r2=1.10&sortby=date&f=h
This issue also affects RHEL2.1 and RHEL3
*** Bug 208352 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0697.html