Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 8, 2006· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2006-5794
CVE-2006-5794
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.
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Affected products
2- Range: <4.5
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
29- secunia.com/advisories/22771nvdPatchVendor Advisory
- secunia.com/advisories/22773nvdPatchVendor Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/20956nvdPatch
- patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20061201-01-P.ascnvd
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0738.htmlnvd
- secunia.com/advisories/22772nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/22778nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/22814nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/22872nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/22932nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/23513nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/23680nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/24055nvd
- securitytracker.com/idnvd
- sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.phpnvd
- sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.phpnvd
- support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-048.htmnvd
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisoriesnvd
- www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_26_sr.htmlnvd
- www.openpkg.org/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.032-openssh.htmlnvd
- www.openssh.org/txt/release-4.5nvd
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/451100/100/0/threadednvd
- www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-3069097-patch.htmlnvd
- www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-9986131-patch.htmlnvd
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4399nvd
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4400nvd
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30120nvd
- issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-766nvd
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11840nvd
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