Race Condition The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package openssh-keycat (opens in a new tab)
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Exploit Maturity
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Proof of Concept
EPSS
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99.51% (100th percentile)
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- published23 May 2025
- disclosed1 Jul 2024
Introduced: 1 Jul 2024
CVE-2024-6387 (opens in a new tab)Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) are common identifiers for publicly known security vulnerabilities
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is a category system for software weaknesses
Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream openssh-keycat package and not the openssh-keycat package as distributed by RHEL.
A security regression (CVE-2006-5051) was discovered in OpenSSH's server (sshd). There is a race condition which can lead sshd to handle some signals in an unsafe manner. An unauthenticated, remote attacker may be able to trigger it by failing to authenticate within a set time period.
References
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- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT214118
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT214119
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