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vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2016-10708: openssh -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jan 21, 2018
Added
Feb 25, 2019
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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.

Solution

debian-upgrade-openssh
Title
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