CVE-2016-10708 (GCVE-0-2016-10708)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-01-21 22:00 – Updated: 2026-04-29 14:33
VLAI
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-04-28 15:50 UTC
CWE
  • n/a
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
References
Date Public
2018-01-21 00:00
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