CVE-2007-0726 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2007-0726?

CVE-2007-0726 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Apple Mac Os X, published on 13 Mar 2007. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The SSH key generation process in OpenSSH in Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 and 10.4 through 10.4.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by connecting to the server before SSH has finished creating keys, which causes the keys to be regenerated and can break trust relationships that were based on the original keys.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-0726?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Apple Mac Os X, Apple Mac Os X Server.

How do I fix CVE-2007-0726?

No fix has been published for CVE-2007-0726 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2007-0726 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-0726 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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