FKIE_CVE-2016-10708
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2018-01-21 22:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:40
Severity
Summary
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
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| openbsd | openssh | * | |
| debian | debian_linux | 7.0 | |
| debian | debian_linux | 8.0 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 14.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 16.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 18.04 | |
| netapp | cloud_backup | - | |
| netapp | data_ontap | - | |
| netapp | data_ontap_edge | - | |
| netapp | oncommand_unified_manager | * | |
| netapp | service_processor | - | |
| netapp | storagegrid | - | |
| netapp | storagegrid_webscale | - | |
| netapp | clustered_data_ontap | - | |
| netapp | vasa_provider | - | |
| netapp | clustered_data_ontap | - |
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