It was found that dropbear before version 2013.59 with GSSAPI leaks whether given username is valid or invalid. When an invalid username is given, the GSSAPI authentication failure was incorrectly counted towards the maximum allowed number of password attempts.

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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-11807 It was found that dropbear before version 2013.59 with GSSAPI leaks whether given username is valid or invalid. When an invalid username is given, the GSSAPI authentication failure was incorrectly counted towards the maximum allowed number of password attempts.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T14:02:07.018Z

Reserved: 2016-12-01T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-2659

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-03-21T15:59:57.093

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:23:55.420

Link: CVE-2017-2659

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