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OpenSSH: race condition in sshd allows remote code execution (stackdiary.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A severe vulnerability in OpenSSH, dubbed "regreSSHion" (CVE-2024-6387), has been discovered by the Qualys Threat Research Unit, potentially exposing

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Last I read about it it required connecting for 6-7 hours continuously on 32bit systems, and it's unknown how long it would take on 64bit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Yeah, exactly. Very impracticable.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

But, eventually exploitable is still a pretty major concern for anybody who has systems running longer than a few days at a time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I can’t imagine any system of influence running an exposed ssh without some further protection from connection abuse like fail2ban.

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