CVE-2016-10708

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    CVE-2016-10708

    Published: 21 Jan 2018Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-676336.pdf, https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10284, https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K32485746?utm_source=f5support&amp%3Butm_medium=RSS, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102780, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00031.html, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00010.html, https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180423-0003/, https://usn.ubuntu.com/3809-1/, https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html, http://blog.swiecki.net/2018/01/fuzzing-tcp-servers.html, https://anongit.mindrot.org/openssh.git/commit/?id=28652bca29046f62c7045e933e6b931de1d16737

    Affected packages

    Package

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -4a354fc231174901f2629437c2a6e924a2dd6772

    Affected versions

    V_7_3_P1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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