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Subject: Re: OpenSSH max auth tries issue
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On 7/17/2015 3:19 PM, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> ------------------
> https://kingcope.wordpress.com/2015/07/16/openssh-keyboard-interactive-authentication-brute-force-vulnerability-maxauthtries-bypass/
> With this vulnerability an attacker is able to request as many password
> prompts limited by the “login graced time” setting, that is set to two
> minutes by default."
> 
> 

There is a patch in the OpenSSH tree to mitigate this. Any chance on
bringing this in before 10.2R ships ?


https://anongit.mindrot.org/openssh.git/patch/?id=5b64f85bb811246c59ebab



	---Mike








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