CVE-2016-10708

7.5HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor
OpenBSD
Status
Openssh
Vendor
CVE Published:
21 January 2018

Summary

sshd in OpenSSH before 7.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via an out-of-sequence NEWKEYS message, as demonstrated by Honggfuzz, related to kex.c and packet.c.

References

https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html
x_refsource_MISC
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180423-0003/
x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg0...
mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST

EPSS Score

12% chance of being exploited in the next 30 days.

CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.5
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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