CVE-2016-10708

7.5 HIGH

Published: January 21, 2018 Modified: April 29, 2026

Description

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.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0

Vector String

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://blog.swiecki.net/2018/01/fuzzing-tcp-servers.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch Third Party Advisory

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102780

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory VDB Entry

https://anongit.mindrot.org/openssh.git/commit/?id=28652bca29046f62c7045e933e6b931de1d16737

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch Third Party Advisory

https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-676336.pdf

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10284

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00031.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Mailing List Third Party Advisory

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00010.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Mailing List Third Party Advisory

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180423-0003/

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K32485746?utm_source=f5support&amp%3Butm_medium=RSS

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3809-1/

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory

https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Release Notes Vendor Advisory

http://blog.swiecki.net/2018/01/fuzzing-tcp-servers.html