Re: OpenSSH keyboard-interactive authentication brute force vulnerability (MaxAuthTries bypass)

[Reed Loden <reed () reedloden com>]

On Friday, July 17, 2015, <devel () roosoft ltd uk> wrote:

> Do you know if this is still affected if you have fail2ban in place.
> Fail2ban uses the auth logs to monitor failed password attempts. I
> assume that the auth log is still updated even if x number of attempts
> is allowed. Thanks



http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/3dnzcq/openssh_keyboardinteractive_authentication_brute/ct726ni
 goes over this question pretty well, so as not to rehash everything.

~reed

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