CVSS 3.1
7.5 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2016-10708
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 96% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-476
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- debian:debian_linux
- netapp:cloud_backup
- netapp:clustered_data_ontap
- netapp:data_ontap
- netapp:data_ontap_edge
- netapp:oncommand_unified_manager
- netapp:service_processor
- netapp:storagegrid
- netapp:storagegrid_webscale
- netapp:vasa_provider
- openbsd:openssh
References
- http://blog.swiecki.net/2018/01/fuzzing-tcp-servers.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102780
- https://anongit.mindrot.org/openssh.git/commit/?id=28652bca29046f62c7045e933e6b931de1d16737
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-676336.pdf
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10284