# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-6409"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-07-08T17:57:10.517Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T02:04:32.558Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:20.494Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-6409"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-6409.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-6409"
title: "Openssh: possible remote code execution due to a race condition in signal handling affecting red hat enterprise linux 9"
summary: "A race condition vulnerability was discovered in how signals are handled by OpenSSH's server (sshd). If a remote attacker does not authenticate within a set time period, then sshd's SIGALRM handler is called asynchronously. However, this signal handler calls various functions that are not async-signal-safe, for example, syslog(). As a consequence of a successful attack, in the worst case scenario, an attacker may be able to perform a remote code execution (RCE) as an unprivileged user running the sshd server."
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