Slackware 10.2: 2006-272-02 Moderate: OpenSSH Denial Of Service Issue

Here are the details from the Slackware 10.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/openssh-4.4p1-i486-1_slack10.2.tgz: Upgraded to openssh-4.4p1. This fixes a few security related issues. From the release notes found at https://www.openssh.org/txt/release-4.4 * Fix a pre-authentication denial of service found by Tavis Ormandy, that would cause sshd(8) to spin until the login grace time expired. * Fix an unsafe signal hander reported by Mark Dowd. The signal handler was vulnerable to a race condition that could be exploited to perform a pre-authentication denial of service. On portable OpenSSH, this vulnerability could theoretically lead to pre-authentication remote code execution if GSSAPI authentication is enabled, but the likelihood of successful exploitation appears remote. * On portable OpenSSH, fix a GSSAPI authentication abort that could be used to determine the validity of usernames on some platforms. Links to