UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10708

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10708

    Published: 21 Jan 2018Last Modified: 4 May 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2016-10708
    Aliases:
    USN-3809-1

    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://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10708, http://blog.swiecki.net/2018/01/fuzzing-tcp-servers.html, https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3809-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-10708

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: openssh

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/openssh@1:6.6p1-2ubuntu2.11?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1:6.6p1-2ubuntu2.11

    Affected versions

    1:6.2p2-6

    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