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TITLE:
Iconfidant SSH Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA30590

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30590/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Iconfidant SSH 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/19003/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Iconfidant SSH, which can
be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

1) An error when processing SSH login packets can be exploited to
cause a DoS via e.g. flooding the vulnerable system with a large
amount of packets.

2) An error when processing SSH login packets while other management
actions are being performed can be exploited to cause a DoS.

3) An error when processing SSH login packets can be exploited to
cause a DoS via a specially crafted packet containing invalid
authentication credentials.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 2.3.8.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.3.8 (see vendor's advisory for more information).

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Icon Labs:
http://www.icon-labs.com/news/read.asp?newsID=77

OTHER REFERENCES:
US-CERT VU#626979:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/626979

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