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.
Published: 2018-01-21
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: 3.1% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1257-1 openssh security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1500-1 openssh security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-1707 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3809-1 OpenSSH vulnerabilities
History

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.01799}

epss

{'score': 0.01532}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T03:30:20.218Z

Reserved: 2018-01-21T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-10708

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-01-21T22:29:00.227

Modified: 2024-11-21T02:44:33.607

Link: CVE-2016-10708

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2018-01-24T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-10708 - Bugzilla

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