OpenSSH Denial of Service Vulnerability via Out-of-Sequence NEWKEYS Message

CVE-2016-10708 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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