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Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.64.0603111349120.1260@fuyu.mindrot.org>
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 13:51:47 +1100 (EST)
From: Damien Miller <djm@...drot.org>
To: Matt Johnston <matt@....asn.au>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk, bugtraq@...urityfocus.com,
	Pablo Fernandez <pablo@...tleQ.net>
Subject: Re: Dropbear SSH server Denial of Service


On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, Matt Johnston wrote:

> Dropbear 0.48 mitigates this issue by having a per-IP limit
> as well as a global limit - this will at least prevent an
> IP-deprived attacker from denying service.
> 
> It's worth noting that various other network services (such
> as netkit-inetd and OpenSSH) have the same design issues, at
> least in default configurations.

OpenSSH has had connection-flood DoS mitigation since 2000, in the 
form of random early drop of connections so legitimate users have a
probabalistic change of getting in. See the "MaxStartups" documentation
in sshd_config(5)

-d

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