CVSS 3.1
8.1 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2016-0778
The (1) roaming_read and (2) roaming_write functions in roaming_common.c in the client in OpenSSH 5.x, 6.x, and 7.x before 7.1p2, when certain proxy and forward options are enabled, do not properly maintain connection file descriptors, which allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact by requesting many forwardings.
Severity
- EPSS
- 21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 97% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-119
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- apple:mac_os_x
- hp:virtual_customer_access_system
- openbsd:openssh
- oracle:linux
- oracle:solaris
- sophos:unified_threat_management_software
References
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10734
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00004.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176516.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176349.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00006.html