CVE-2016-10708 in OpenSSH

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.

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• Reservation: 01/21/2018
• Disclosure: 01/21/2018
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: 1
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-476 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 6.4
• EPSS: 0.03120
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-10708
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10708
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2016-10708/