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CVE-2016-10708

high

Description

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://usn.ubuntu.com/3809-1/

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180423-0003/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00010.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00031.html

https://anongit.mindrot.org/openssh.git/commit/?id=28652bca29046f62c7045e933e6b931de1d16737

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102780

http://blog.swiecki.net/2018/01/fuzzing-tcp-servers.html

https://github.com/TechByDami/vulnerability-cve-scanner

https://github.com/openSUSE/cve-backport-tool

https://github.com/anicka-net/cve-backport-tool

https://github.com/fujiokayu/nmap-nvd-script

https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K32485746?utm_source=f5support&amp%3Butm_medium=RSS

https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10284

https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-676336.pdf

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-01-21

Updated: 2026-04-29

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.16002