GSSAPI Authentication Failure Leak in Dropbear

CVE-2017-2659 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

It was found that dropbear before version 2013.59 with GSSAPI leaks whether given username is valid or invalid. When an invalid username is given, the GSSAPI authentication failure was incorrectly counted towards the maximum allowed number of password attempts.

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