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Authentication mechanism absence or evasion In openssh

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the sshd Privilege Separation Monitor in OpenSSH before 4.5 causes weaker verification that authentication has been successful, which might allow attackers to bypass authentication. NOTE: as of 20061108, it is believed that this issue is only exploitable by leveraging vulnerabilities in the unprivileged process, which are not known to exist.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

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