Juniper Junos OS: 2018-01 Security Bulletin: Junos OS: OpenSSH Memory exhaustion due to unregistered KEXINIT handler (JSA10837) (CVE-2016-8858)
8
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
12/09/2016
07/25/2018
01/11/2018
11/08/2023
Description
The kex_input_kexinit function in kex.c in OpenSSH 6.x and 7.x through 7.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by sending many duplicate KEXINIT requests. NOTE: a third party reports that "OpenSSH upstream does not consider this as a security issue."
Solution(s)
- juniper-junos-os-upgrade-latest
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